On Mon 01 Oct 2001 at 09:15AM +0200, Markus Lutz wrote: > On Sat, 29 Sep 2001 09:54:50 +0000, Jack Campin wrote: > > JC> > On another note... I'm trying to print a 5-voice piece of music using > JC> > yaps. I would like four voices to share two staves -- two on one > JC> > staff, two on another, the fifth on it's own staff. The source I'm > JC> > transcribing this from has that format, with voice indicated by stem > JC> > directon, and it will allow me more room on the page for lyrics and > JC> > notes (also to be embedded in the abc file). There doesn't seem to be > JC> > anything clear in the yaps documentation available to me that would > JC> > describe how to do that. > JC> > > JC> > Is there any way to do what I want using yaps? In any other > JC> > abc-to-sheet-music converter (abc2mtex, etc?) > JC>
You are correct in thinking that yaps does not support this feature. I have to admit that I find this business of putting two voices onto one staff a bit confusing. In general you are going to end up with two notes of different lengths being notated at the same time, which means you don't know when to start playing the next note. Unfortunately not all notes have stems, so the stem direction idea won't quite solve the problem. Perhaps you are meant to pick two voices which don't have this problem, or maybe you use ties to solve it (in which case there is scope for someone to write a voice-merging tool for abc). The fact that voice-merging appears to be a bit of a bodge, and that I have plenty of other projects to work on, has so far kept me from thinking very seriously about trying to support it. James Allwright To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
