Re: The \\ construct for simultaneous voices

[Trevor Daniels]

Kieren MacMillan wrote Sunday, September 06, 2009 3:34 PM
> > \\ is quite more convenient than explicit voices and thus an 
> > important
> > idiom that makes Lilypond friendlier to the user.
>
> Yes, but as previously discussed, the confusion it (ultimately) 
> causes is a poor
> trade-off. The whole problem would be solved if \\ Did The Right 
> Thing, i.e.
>  << { musicA } \\ { musicB }>>
> would automagically expand to
>  << { \voiceOne musicA } \context Voice = "2" { \voiceTwo 
> musicB }>> \oneVoice

This change would help, but I don't think it
would solve the whole problem.  You'd still have
an implied name for the second context, so it
doesn't work in more than one staff, or when
there are lyrics to assign.

> I can take this on as my next Frog task, if it requires no C++. 
> Then, the
> documentation can simply use \\ early on (e.g., in the LM), and 
> show what it does > later.

I think this is implemented in voicify-music
in scm/music-functions.scm.

I'll hold fire on the re-documentation a bit
longer until you've had a look at this.

Trevor