Re: Changing voice order...

[Robert Schmaus]

Hi everyone,

I've never used implicit voice assignment and I doubt I will start with it now. 

But since there's no real need for the ordering of voices _in the code_ to 
match the vertical arrangement of the _engraved_ notes (and isn't that also, 
what Lilypond is all about? You specify the input in a well-structured way, let 
lily care about the engraving) I'd find any input sequence other than 1/2/3/... 
counterintuitive. 

Best,
Robert

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> On 27 Oct 2016, at 13:40, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 
> This concerns << ... \\ ... \\ ... ... >>
> 
> If we have more than one voice, voices are assigned in order:
> 
> 1/2, 1/2/3, 1/2/3/4, 1/2/3/4/5, 1/2/3/4/5/6 ...
> 
> while the documentation is quite explicit that, ordered from top to
> bottom, assignments should be more like
> 
> 1/2, 3/1/2, 3/1/2/4, 5/3/1/2/4, 5/3/1/2/4/6 ...
> 
> namely keeping the small voice numbers for the inner voices.  Now I am
> sort of afraid that changing this is likely to end pretty disruptive to
> existing scores.  Even though I don't know how many really use the
> original ordering unchanged as well as intentionally.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> -- 
> David Kastrup
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