Kludge (need a little help as usual :) )...

[Timothy S. Nelson]

        I've been trying to hack together a temporary workaround for the
problem of the notes printing over the dots (NB: this would go in people's
individual .ly files, not in the source :) ).  It'd be solved if I could swap
the notes around.  I've been trying to do this within my ly files in the ugly
way shown below:

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noteLeft = {
        \property Voice.NoteHead        \override #'extra-offset = #'(-1.7 . 0)
        \property Voice.Stem            \override #'extra-offset = #'(-1.7 . 0)
        \property Voice.Dots            \override #'extra-offset = #'(-1.7 . 0)
        \property Voice.Beam            \override #'extra-offset = #'(-1.7 . 0)
}

noteRight = {
        \property Voice.NoteHead        \override #'extra-offset = #'(1.7 . 0)
        \property Voice.Stem            \override #'extra-offset = #'(1.7 . 0)
        \property Voice.Dots            \override #'extra-offset = #'(1.7 . 0)
        \property Voice.Beam            \override #'extra-offset = #'(1.7 . 0)
}

noteRevert = {
        \property Voice.Dots            \revert #'extra-offset
        \property Voice.Stem            \revert #'extra-offset
        \property Voice.NoteHead        \revert #'extra-offset
}

beamRevert = {
        \property Voice.Beam            \revert #'extra-offset
}

.................

        \noteRight
        bes8.( \noteRevert c'16 )d'4 \beamRevert d'4  |
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        Unfortunately, the Beaming thing isn't working the way I want it to.
Is there some way to get it to move one end of the beam and not the other?
        Or is there some other way to do it which is much simpler, but which I
in my ignorance have missed?

        Thanks again,

        :)

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