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Hiding staves with rests only (for some/all voices)

…choir score, or an orchestral score, where some voices are quiet for a long time, you might … …system would still show all staves for all voices. To force this setting to also apply to … …anything smaller than 5). If you have some voices where you still want to display all (even …

Additional voices to avoid collisions

In some instances of complex polyphonic music, additional voices are necessary to prevent collisions between notes. If more than four parallel voices are needed, additional voices can be added by defining a variable using …

Creating slurs across voices

…necessary to create slurs between notes from different voices. The solution is to add invisible notes to one of the voices, using \hideNotes. This example is measure 235 of …

Hammer on and pull off using voices

…arc of hammer-on and pull-off is upwards in voices one and three and downwards in voices two and four:

Sometimes you have two voices combined on one staff, but you also want … …text assigned. However, when combining them as two voices on the same staff, each voice will print …

…indent) args))))) \markuplist { \paragraph{ Sometimes you have two voices combined on one staff, but you also want … …text assigned. However, when combining them as two voices on the same staff, each voice will print … …filterOneEvent music)) % The score, where we combine the voices on one staff, so we only want % dynamics, …

Associating lyrics with voices in \ChoirStaff

…associatedVoice to associate the lyrics with the correct voices.

Ambitus with multiple voices

…even in the case of staves with multiple voices.

Creating arpeggios across notes in different voices

…arpeggio can be drawn across notes in different voices on the same staff if the Span_arpeggio_…

…polyphonic music multi-measure rests in odd-numbered and even-numbered voices are vertically separated. The positioning of multi-measure rests …

…6 R1 \revert MultiMeasureRest.staff-position \break % In two Voices, odd-numbered voices are under the top line << { R1 } \\ { … …staff-position = 0 { R1 } >> % Using compressed bars in multiple voices requires another override % in all voices to avoid multiple instances being printed \compressMMRests << \revert …

Full bar rest number only if all voices have rests

…on full bar rests, but only if all voices have rests simultaneously, here is a "negative" engraver (…