Re: placing of artificial harmonic

[Mats Bengtsson]

To make a single note in a chord invisible, you have to use the \tweak 
feature:
<eih d g \harmonic \tweak #'transparent ##t f >4

  /Mats

Orm Finnendahl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to write a doublestop in a violin piece, where on note is
> played as an artificail harmonic.
>
> In the sequence '<eih d g \harmonic>4'
>
> The harmonic is placed above the 'eih' but should be placed above the
> 'd'. Is there any way to either flip the noteheads of the eih and d or
> move the harmonic diamond horizontally?
>
> I tried to trick lilypond by adding a fourth notehead in order to flip
> the harmonic sign and then making the added notehead invisible:
>
> '<eih d g \harmonic \hideNotes  a \unHideNotes>4'
>
> This doesn't seem to work inside a chord. Also overriding #'notehead
> to be transparent doesn't work in this context.
>
> Putting the d with its harmonic in another voice context results in
> awkward spacings of the two voices (Stem up and down) and makes the
> whole thing quite difficult to read. Using text markup for the diamond
> sign is awkward as the notes are placed above the space with some
> ledger lines.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> --
> Orm
>
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