I don't think we have a solution to this one... I've been transcribing a piece of piano music which has a passage in sextuplets where the first note is taken on one hand and the rest on the other (indicated by differing stem directions), both parts are in the same staff). I can code that in ABC using BarFly's voice layout control:
In the header: V:1 up V:2 merge down In the tune: V:1 ... (6:4:xCFAFC ... V:2 ... (6:4:A,xxxxx ... Which gives me what's in the original score, EXCEPT that the program produces two "-- 6 --" tuplet bars and places them so they overlap. The placement issue might be soluble given layout heuristics better than what BarFly has currently got, but it would be better if I had a way to suppress one of the tuplet bars. How could this be expressed? What I eventually went for was V:1 ... (6:4:xCFAFC ... V:2 ... A,xxx ... which got rid of the overlap, and is in fact what the composer wrote, but was obviously not what he meant. In this instance, where the music is very fast and the tuplets are broken chords, the difference is inaudible; in a slow passage where the notes didn't stack to form consonant chords, it might not be. =================== <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> =================== To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
