Re: tie from multiple voice?

[Tom Sgouros]

Great, I think I understand. Thank you very much.

 -Tom

On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 12:48 PM Lukas-Fabian Moser <lfm@gmx.de> wrote:

Hi Tom,

Am 03.12.21 um 16:02 schrieb Tom Sgouros:
> Thanks, but I'm not sure I completely understand. What you're saying
> is that if you don't define a voice immediately, you still get one,
> but its name is nothing ("")? So in my multi-voice segment I can
> explicitly reference the voice-with-no-name as you are showing with
> the \voices construct? That makes sense, if that's correct.

Yes, that's basically correct (I'm just not sure if the sentence "its
name is nothing" is technically correct, but anyway it's what the
situation amounts to).

If you do \new Staff, then the music you enter is still in a "Voice"
context that is created implicitly. We could create it explicitly and
also give it a name:

\new Staff \new Voice = main {

  % bla

}

and then use \voices main,2 << \\ >> for multi-voice music where the
first voice is a continuation of the "main" voice (and hence can be tied
to notes outside of << \\ >>).

But notice what Akikazu wrote: If we use \voices with non-number id's,
LilyPond does not do the \voiceOne / \voiceOne automatically that's
responsible for stem directions, shifting etc. So we have to add them
manually, which I forgot to do in my example, unfortunately.

Best
Lukas