Re: Quick question re pmp.ily

[Rutger Hofman]

I think I once tried something along these lines:

\quoteDuring instA { ... time 1 ... }
\PMPChords #'( "instA" "instB" ) { ... time 2 ... }
\partCombine
    \quoteDuring instA { ... time 3 ... }
    \quoteDuring instB { ... time 3 ... }
\PMPApart #'( "instA" "instB" ) { ... time 4 ... }

and I think it worked; to my surprise. to be true.

I have no idea if \partCombineApart etc work through quoteDuring.

My own workflow is to start out trying partCombine for one staff with 
two voices, then when partCombine first fails I try "easy" fixes like 
adding \partCombineApart etc. If these fail, I convert to PMP 
completely. It depends on the complexity of the polyphony I guess.

Rutger

On 8/8/20 6:34 PM, David Sumbler wrote:
> Hi Rutger
>
> Thanks again for sharing your brilliant work on staff management.
>
> I downloaded pmp.ily, and I have got it working for my orchestral
> score.  Clearly it is more versatile and controllable than
> \partCombine.  But it is, of course, somewhat more complicated to use,
> by its very nature and also because of certain limitations in Lilypond
> that you mention in your tutorial.
>
> One quick question: if one wishes to use PMP for some passages and
> \partCombine for those where it works acceptably, is it necessary to
> define two different staves (with different VerticalAxisGroup.remove-
> layer values), or can it all be done on one defined stave?
>
> I think the answer is that I need to define an extra stave, but perhaps
> you will tell me differently.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> David