Re: Moving note in three-voice context

[William Rehwinkel]

    Dear Jakob,
      
      It must be a nice piece d'orgue ;) (this has lost some of
      its comedic value as others have already answered)
      
      I can think of two solutions to this problem.
      
      1. You can override NoteHead.extra-spacing-width = #'(left .
      right). For example, #'(-4 . 0)
      
      so:
      
      % ---
      leftOne = \relative c' {
        \global \voiceOne e4 d c h |
        a \change Staff = "right" \voiceTwo  \once \override
      NoteHead.extra-spacing-width = #'(-4 . 0 ) a' gis a | h2 e, |
      }
    % ---
      
      2. Insert the following code in the layout block and remove the
      forst-hshift override:
      
      % ---
          \context {
            \Voice
            \override VoiceFollower.springs-and-rods =
      #ly:spanner::set-spacing-rods
            \override VoiceFollower.after-line-breaking = ##t
            \override VoiceFollower.minimum-length = #5
            \override VoiceFollower.minimum-length-after-break = #4
          }
      % ---
      
      This allows you to set a minimum horizontal length for all
      VoiceFollower, and if the line would have a shorter horizontal
      distance, it will be lengthened (this is my personal choice,
      except I set the glissando properties this way and manually insert
      glissandos).
      
      Thanks,
      -Will

On 5/17/23 13:33, Jakob Pedersen wrote:

Greetings!

I'm attempting to move a note horizontally to fix a poorly placed voice-leading line.

Breitkopf fixes it by nudging the a following the staff change to the right, and I'd like to copy that.



A minimal example from my score:

\version "2.24.1"
\language "deutsch"

global = {
  \key g \major
  \time 4/4
  \showStaffSwitch
  \override VoiceFollower.style = #'dashed-line
}

rightOne = \relative c'' {
  \global \voiceOne h4 h a g | fis!2 f'~ | f4 f e d |
}

rightTwo = \relative c'' {
  \global \voiceTwo g4 f e2 | \voiceThree d2 d'~ | d h |
}

leftOne = \relative c' {
  \global \voiceOne e4 d c h |
  a \change Staff = "right" \voiceTwo \once \override NoteColumn.force-hshift = #3 a' gis a | h2 e, |

}

leftTwo = \relative c' {
  \global \voiceTwo e,2 a | d,2. c4 | h2 h' |
}

pedal = \relative c {
  \global c1~ | c4 c h a | gis2 gis' |
}

\score {
  <<
    \new PianoStaff <<
      \new Staff = "right" << \rightOne \\ \rightTwo >>
      \new Staff = "left" { \clef bass << \leftOne \\ \leftTwo >> }
    >>
    \new Staff = "pedal"
    << \clef bass \pedal >>
  >>
  \layout { ragged-first = ##f }
}

I've included a couple of extra bars because I wasn't sure if it was related to something in those.

\once \override NoteColumn.force-hshift = #3 doesn't seem to work.  (3 was just an arbitrary number to see if it would move.) I can nudge the notes at the beginning of the bar to the left, except the force-hshift fails to work on the tied d in the bass line.

I'm sure there's a simple explanation, but I've been unable to figure it out so far.


Best wishes,

Jakob Pedersen


ps. There's a free imaginary balloon to anyone who recognises the piece.

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