Re: partcombine and instrumentSwitch

[Jan-Peter Voigt]

Hi David,

On 14.09.2012 10:53, David Kastrup wrote:
> It is often a tossup whether you are better off using the partcombiner 
> on voices, or just \voiceOne/\voiceTwo. If, say, one of two oboes 
> switches instruments, you just want to see this for its own voice. In 
> fact, I find that for things like two oboes, you are almost always 
> better off using separate voices. The partcombiner is more interesting 
> if you try creating a piano extract or similar, where there is only 
> one executing instrument. 
I totally agree ... but: The piece I am working on is a partitura for 
piece where flute II uses a piccolo in a few cases. For the two oboes, 
where oboe II sometimes uses an english horn, I use 2 staffs.
For this flute/piccolo case, this decision is a question of space ... so 
now I can split violine I&II in two staffs to prevent collisions because 
of voice-crossing (english term? ;) )
For all the other divided instruments (fagott, trumpet) the partcombiner 
is totally fine. I can override the solo- and a-due-texts to e.g. "(flt 
I)" and "zu 2" like in the manuscript. Well this is to discuss with the 
one, who is actually using this piece ;-)

Cheers,
Jan-Peter