Re: Dot-notehead collision

[Trevor Daniels]

address@hidden wrote Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:59 PM


> Perhaps a stupid question - in traditional engraving, is there 
> ever an instance where, in 2 voice > polyphony, the note column w/ 
> a downward pointing stem is placed to the right of note column 
> with > an upward pointing stem?  I hacked a solution that does 
> this and it looks much clearer than moving > in the other 
> direction (see attached).  However, if it is not Kosher, I'll 
> scrub it.
>
> \relative c' { \time 3/4 << { <cis a'>4 <b fis'>2 }
> \\ { \once \override Voice . NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #1.25 
> d2. } >> }
>
> \relative c' { \time 3/4 << { <cis a'>4 <b fis'>2 }
> \\ { \once \override Voice . NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #-1.25 
> d2. } >> }

The upper one is correct, I believe.  The real music example in the
Learning Manual shows this in a extract from a Chopin Ballade taken
from a printed publication.  See
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/learning/real-music-example

Trevor





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> Cheers,
> Mike