Re: Clashing note columns

[David Kastrup]

Kris Van Bruwaene <address@hidden> writes:

> I am typesetting a choral piece wich has two voices coming in unisono on a
> single staff, one with a whole note (g1), the other with two half notes (g2
> g2). The whole note and the first half note clash at the start of the
> measure. I tried to avoid the clash with the remedies given in the Lilypond
> manual:
> 1) \once \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #2.7 g1
> to shift the whole note to the right in the measure; no effect. And
> 2) in the lyrics:
> { al -- le -- lu -- \once \override LyricText #'self-alignment-X = #CENTER
> ia } (from Lilypond Snippets Lyrics alignment)
> No effect either, probably because the syllable "ia" is too short.  How can
> I solve this?

I can't quite see your example code.

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David Kastrup