Re: [SPAM] Re: Stemming for hymnal

[Erik Sandberg]

On Sunday 29 May 2005 02.27, address@hidden wrote:
> Erik, Han-Wen, All,
>
> I have been experimenting with the part combiner.  I know very little
> about scheme, being mainly a C/C++/assembler guy.  Therefore, it is
> with due humility that I suggest changes, because I really have no idea
> what I'm doing.
>
> Erik's change did not achieve the desired effect.  The part combiner, by
> itself, does much of what I want.  However, notes in unison in both
> parts and notes a second apart should be engraved in parts rather than
> as a single note or chord.
>
> I changed part-combiner.scm as follows:
>
>  <                             (> 0 (ly:pitch-steps (ly:pitch-diff (car
> pitches1)
> ----
>
>  >                             (>= 1 (ly:pitch-steps (ly:pitch-diff (car
>
> pitches1)
>
> That achieves the desired result.  Since  I am using a common hymnal
> formatting convention, you may wish to consider making the part
> combiner adjustable this way without resorting to a change to the
> source.
>

I think you could also change 8 to something like -100000 (instead of 0) in my 
previous fix. That should also fix if the voices ever cross.

Erik