Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 185 in lilypond: RhythmicStaff squishing chords should produce single notes

[lilypond]

Comment #4 on issue 185 by address@hidden: RhythmicStaff squishing  
chords should produce single notes
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=185

The doubled note heads can be merged by setting their X-offset to 0.  
Additionally, for chords with dotted duration, you have to get rid of all  
but one lenghtening dot, as they get spaced apart in their DotColumn.

Here is a kludgy patch that does both, the latter by implementing a simple  
new Squashed_dot_column_engraver:

http://codereview.appspot.com/6495107/

(This is my first work with the LilyPond source code, please review  
critically.)

With the patch, this works as intended:


\new RhythmicStaff {
  <c es g>4. <c e>8( <cis eis>16 <d f>-> e) r \times 2/3 { <c e>8 c c }
}


Limitation: If you want to sqash multiple voices, you have to move the  
Squashed_dot_column_engraver to the Voice level. (You might want to do the  
same with the Pitch_squash_engraver anyway to define a separate  
squashedPosition for each.)

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