I keep flipping back and forth between which is easier - using different note lengths within a chord, or multiple voices. Where multiple voices on a single staff move in parallel, it is easiest to use chords and then just deal with independent movement of voices where needed - but currently this is not supported (to my knowledge) with any consistency in any abc package. The latest version of abcm2ps seems to support this, but use of it on a multistaff piece seems to really screw things up. Obviously, where there is considerable independent movement or voices on one staff, using multiple voices makes the most sense.
One solution might be to allow the definition of additional voices on the fly - or within a block of music. That way, when you only have a small portion of a piece that requires independent voices on one staff you don't have to pad the entire piece with invisible rests.
Don.
John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
=?iso-8859-1?q?Forgeot=20Eric?= writes:
| ps : well, let's discuss now about the chords with different note
| length [A2c4] etc. :) I expect a nice debate
Funny thing; just this morning I got a personal message
about this. But the writer was complaining about the the
opposite problem: the difficulty of avoiding such things
when editing music at 2 am. The suggestion was a single
chord length that would apply to all notes.
I replied that this had actually been discussed in the past
and then sorta forgotten. The most elegant solution was to
allow a length after the ] and it would apply to all the
notes in the chord. I think someone else suggested that the
proper approach was to multiply the lengths, though this
might be very rarely used.
Anyway the idea is that these would work:
[GBd]3 means [G3B3d3]
[GB]>[Ac] means [G3/2B3/2][A/2c/2]
[B-G2]3Bcd means [B3-G6]Bcd
and so on.
This is something that would be purely additional work for
implementors. It's only benefit would be to user.
I wonder if anyone has implemented it already.
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