Re: moving notes and accidentals

[Valentin Villenave]

2008/3/7, luis jure <address@hidden>:

>  the problem was the clash between a and a-flat in the two voices. by
>  default lilypond merges the two noteheads, even if they have different
>  accidentals. first i found about force-hshift, and managed to move the
>  aes to the right. but only the note, the accidental stayed in place.

>  the code compiles without complaints and i get what i wanted, but i'm
>  not sure if it is a good solution. is there a simpler|better|cleaner
>  way to move the note _and_ the accidental to avoid the clash between
>  a-natural and a-flat? some part of the documentation i missed?

Hi Luis,

unfortunately, you have stumbled upon a known limitation of LilyPond
(there are very few, and this is probably one of the most annoying):
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=546
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=547

Joe has recently made the situation a little less worse, but this is
still nowhere near perfect. So your workaround is the best solution so
far.

Cheers,
Valentin