Hi Kieren, 2012-12-14 14:47 GMT+01:00 Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca>: > Hello all, > > Like many people on this list, I engrave a number of choral works using > Lilypond. Like a smaller subset of those people, I engrave a number of large > and very large works (musicals, operas, extended choral works, etc.), which > require multiple editions (full score, pianovocal score, vocal book, etc.) > each with their own font sizes, system and page breaks, and so on. > > There are many times when two or more of my vocal or choral lines share > material — for example, in my "Wither's Carol", the entire first verse (with > the exception of a single two-measure chunk) is in "choral unison" (meaning > everyone singing the same notes and words in their own usual octave) — > whereas there are other very contrapuntal sections where material is totally > independent. Hence, there are sections where a score COULD be adequately > represented using only 1 choral staff, and other sections that require 2 or 3 > or 4 (or even more) independent staves. > > Ultimately, I would like to have Lilypond choose the correct number of staves > so that horizontal and vertical spacing is optimal, using partcombine (or > 'partexplode'?), cueing, etc., to accomplish its task. > > I realize this is an AI nightmare and well outside Lilypond's current scope. > So as a half-measure, I would love to be able to tag certain sections as > "requires X staves", and then have Lilypond choose the least number of > required staves based on system/line breaking. As I [manually] change the > line breaks, the systems would automagically "expand" or "contract" as > necessary/possible to accommodate the new layout. Unfortunately, the current > tagging system is insufficient to do this, as far as I can tell. > > Can anyone think of a reasonably easy way to implement this feature? > If so, I'll be happy to sponsor it.
I think that issue 3518 (pushed recently) does just this: https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3518 _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
