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Node:Automatic part combining, Next:Hara kiri staves, Previous:Multi measure rests, Up:Writing parts Automatic part combiningAutomatic part combining is used to merge two parts of music onto a staff in an intelligent way. It is aimed primarily at typesetting orchestral scores. When the two parts are identical for a period of time, only one is shown. In places where the two parts differ, they are typeset as separate voices, and stem directions are set automatically. Also, solo and a due parts can be identified and marked. The syntax for part combining is \partcombine context musicexpr1 musicexpr2where the pieces of music musicexpr1 and musicexpr2 will be combined into one context of type context. The music expressions must be interpreted by contexts whose names should start with one
and two .
The most useful function of the part combiner is to combine parts into one voice, as common for wind parts in orchestral scores: \context Staff < \context Voice=one \partcombine Voice \context Thread=one \relative c'' { g a () b r } \context Thread=two \relative c'' { g r4 r f } > Notice that the first If you just want the merging parts, and not the textual markings, you may set the property soloADue to false. \context Staff < \property Staff.soloADue = ##f \context Voice=one \partcombine Voice \context Thread=one \relative c'' { b4 a c g } \context Thread=two \relative c'' { d,2 a4 g' } > There are a number of other properties that you can use to tweak the
behavior of part combining, refer to the automatically generated
documentation of Thread_devnull_engraver
and
Voice_devnull_engraver
. Look at the documentation of the
responsible engravers, BUGS In |
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