Thank you both! I've got it working.
For the doubled b (the first notes) you’ll want
\once \override NoteColumn.force-hshift = #1
before the b in voice 2
> 28 juni 2020 kl. 23:34 skrev Mark Stephen Mrotek <carsonmark@ca.rr.com>:
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> Jasmuth,
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> See the attached.
>
> Mark
>
> From: lilypond-user [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr.com@gnu.org] On Behalf Of jasmuth@gmail.com
> Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2020 12:04 PM
> To: lilypond-user@gnu.org
> Subject: trouble with alignment for a guitar piece
>
> Hi lilypond folks,
>
> I'm trying to make a cleaned up version of the score here: http://www.knila.nl/files/Pasillo_no1.pdf (also attached).
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> The composer is being quite expressive with stems and the notation in general, and I'd really like to replicate it.
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> Right away I've started running into trouble. On the very first note, we have a doubled b. To a guitarist, that indicates that the note shall be played on more than one string. In lilypond I am having no luck figuring out how to make it do this.
>
> In the second measure, there are three voices. The melody (c' b'), accompaniment (c' b g b') (though the c' and b' are not doubled, those are just two voices sharing a note), and the bass (e,).
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> Now I'm having the opposite problem as I ran into in the first note... I *don't* want to draw the c' twice, I just want two different stems coming out of it (seems to work ok for the b'). And then with the low e, I can't figure out how to get the half note to align horizontally with the b' from the first two voices. I am pretty sure I'm not just messing up the rhythm in my notation, but I could be wrong.
>
> Can anyone help me here? I'm embedding my .ly file below and attaching a rendered pdf.
>
> Also happy to have my markup style trounced on here, I'm mostly piecing things together from snippets in the lilypond docs.
>
> ---pasillo_n1.ly---
> \version "2.18.2"
> \header {
> title = "Pasillo No. 1"
> composer = "Prof Francisco A. Velasquez"
> }
>
> <<
> \relative d'' {
> \time 3/4
> \key g \major
> r8
> <<
> \new Voice = "melody"
> { \voiceThree
> b-0 cis-2[ dis-4] e-0[ fis-1] |
> r4 c'4. b8 |
> s4 e,4 r8 fis |
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> }
> \new Voice { \voiceTwo
> b,-3 ais-3[ a-1] g-0[ fis-3] |
> s4 c''8[ b,] g[ b'] |
> g,,8[ g'] e'[ b] g[ fis] |
> }
> \new Voice { \voiceFour
> s2.
> e,4~ e2
> g4~ g2
> }
> >>
> }
> >>
>
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>