Partcombine clarification

[James Lowe]

Hello (taken from a thread on 'user')

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)bruys . <notenoir <at> gmail.com> writes:
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)>  I wondered if
)> \partcombine is supposed to work with more than two parts. The
)> documentation refers to combining "several" parts, but only shows
)> examples with two parts.
)
)\partcombine does not try to combine more than two parts.

In the documentation it says:

"Automatic part combining
Automatic part combining is used to merge two parts of music onto a staff. It 
is aimed 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 are identified and 
marked by default."

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Should we be more explicit here and not use the term 'parts' but 'voices' as a 
'part' could contain more than one 'voice', the example given says:

The syntax for part combining is:
\partcombine musicexpr1 musicexpr2

Which is technically true but again does not imply necessarily, that each 
'musicexpr' can only contain a single voice.

We DO have an @KNOWNISSUE

Known issues and warnings
\partcombine can only accept two voices.

However would it be ok to take this out of 'known issues' - and put it in the 
main body of the text? After all if this is how PC works then it really isn't 
an 'issue' is it?

James

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