Re: Using partCombine with beamed melismata in cadenza mode

[Phil Holmes]

On 17/06/2021 12:51, Brent Annable wrote:

Hi Phil,

I was here:

https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.20/Documentation/notation/multiple-voices#automatic-part-combining

I see now in the URL that the version is 2.20, but this is where Google sent me when I searched for "Lilypond partcombine" (without the quotation marks). Should I always check to see where I end up, or was this a cached page, or will it perhaps be taken down at some point?

Brent.

On Thu, 17 Jun 2021, 9:29 pm Phil Holmes, <mail@philholmes.net> wrote:

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

Unfortunately Google frequently fails to direct you to the latest documentation, so it's better to start from the lilypond site and use the documentation index.  We leave old versions of the docs for people who are still using old versions of lilypond.

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Phil Holmes