Re: Partcombine clarification

[Trevor Daniels]

James, you wrote Tuesday, April 12, 2011 10:07 AM

)bruys . <notenoir <at> gmail.com> writes:
)
)>  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.

The word "several" is used only in a snippet - Combining
two parts on the same staff.  This wording is misleading
and should be changed.

> 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."

> 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.

I'd prefer to leave this wording untouched.  The arguments
to \partcombine are music expressions, not voices, although
they are interpreted as voice contexts in partcombine, as
the text says later.  You could _add_ a sentence mentioning
the limitation to one voice here, if you like.

> 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?

I'd prefer to leave this in known issues so we have a
complete list there.  I'd be happy to see the limitation
on voices mentioned, in addition, earlier in the text.

> James

Trevor




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