On 2014-12-21 4:30 PM, Urs Liska wrote:
Your irritation originates in the fact that you want to produce a score that*looks* like chords but is structurally a polyphonic setting. There's nothing wrong with this but it implies expecting some "uncommon" behaviour. Concretely you have to hide the articulations in one voice. OTOH when you set it as chords you have to force the direction of the articulations. That's not a shortcoming or inconvenience of LilyPond but a side-effect of doing something beside the conventions.
I guess this stems from the fact that I'm so unfamiliar with musical conventions. Not having a huge amount of formal training, I can't recognize when something is "unconventional" and thus warrants some pretzel twisting. However, now that I know this, it makes sense to me that I have to hide the articulations from the harmony to achieve the look I want. Further, with the \omit statement down in the Voice, I've accomplished the separation of music from presentation (part of the goal of this exercise). On 2014-12-21 4:43 PM, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote:
Yes, articulations are per-voice --- otherwise you can't have a tenuto tenor against a staccato cantus or similar.
I figured something like this was a possibility, even if it didn't figure into the piece I was working on.
Something like http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=372 might help. Or try removing the Script_engraver from one of the voices. Or if you really want to be able to merge the articulations, put them all in a single voice, using partcombine:
In this case the \omit statement is enough, but I'll keep both of those solutions in mind should I get a more complicated piece. Thanks Peter, Urs, and Kevin for your help. I feel like I've got a better understanding of what Lilypond expects (and what I should be doing) now. ✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝ Br. Samuel, OSB (R. Padraic Springuel) PAX ☧ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user