Re: Reasons for cross-voice limitations?

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> What about defining anchors?  Having a slur ending in a different
>> voice makes the `(' ... `)' notation extremely hard to read (if it
>> works at all).  Instead, I can imagine something like the following
>> to get a slur between voiceA and voiceB, starting on the second and
>> ending on the fourth quarter beat.
>>
>>   in voiceA:  c4
>>               \connect #'Slur #'voiceB #'myanchor
>>               d e f
>>
>>   in voiceB:  e4 f g
>>               \anchor #'myanchor
>>               a
> 
> That's not going to work out when you have the same sort of
> construct again and again and again.  You don't want to invent a new
> name twice a measure.

Right.  In case you've missed it, I made another, probably better
suggestion.

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2015-03/msg00300.html


    Werner