Re: Using partCombine with beamed melismata in cadenza mode

[Phil Holmes]

On 17/06/2021 12:19, Brent Annable wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to use \partCombine to merge two parts with beamed eighth notes in 
> cadenza mode (see attached). What I want is for the three eighth notes in the 
> lower part to merge into chords with the upper part, but Lilypond doesn't seem 
> to want to do it. When I take out the [ ] beaming marks, it merges the second 
> two notes, but the first one (tied to the previous e-flat) still won't merge 
> with the part above it.
>
> Is there a way to get \partCombine to do this?
>
> Regards,
>
> Brent.
>
> PS: I've noticed that the online documentation still says to use \partcombine with a 
> lower-case "c", but when I try that I get error messages. It only works for me 
> in version 2.22.1 when I use camel case (\partCombine).

Are you sure you're actually using the 2.22 documentation?  See:

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/multiple-voices#index-part-combiner

where the c is clearly upper case.

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Phil Holmes