Re: Note shifting with multiple voices

[James E. Bailey]

And the weakness is pretty apparent. Lilypond does a great job of  
placing notes, but in my opinion, the placement of dots when the  
notehead falls on a line is less than appealing.

El 11.02.2009, a las 11:52, Nick Payne escribió:

> After a bit of fiddling, this gives pretty much the desired output:
>
> \version "2.12.2"
>
> \relative c'' {
>     << {
>         d8. e16 \once \override Dots #'extra-offset = #'(0 . 0.5)  
> c8. d16
> b8. c16
>                 \once \override Dots #'extra-offset = #'(0 . 0.5) a8. b16
>     } \\ {
>         c8[ b] \once \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #1.5 b a  
> a[ g]
>                 \once \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #1.5 g f
>     }
> > >
> }
>
> Nick
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James E. Bailey [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Wednesday, 11 February 2009 20:15
> > To: address@hidden
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: Note shifting with multiple voices
> >
> > Not that this solves your particular problem, but it seems pretty
> > consistent to me: when the upper note falls on a line, it's to the
> > left, when it's on a space, to the right. Probably because of the
> > dot. Actually, it is because of the dot placement. If you change d8.
> > to d8~ d16, they are all always on the left.
> >
> > El 11.02.2009, a las 09:24, address@hidden escribió:
> >
> > > If I have the following:
> > >
> > > %=============================
> > > \version "2.12.2"
> > >
> > > \relative c'' {
> > >     << {
> > >         d8. e16 c8. d16 b8. c16 a8. b16
> > >     } \\ {
> > >         c8[ b] b a a[ g] g f
> > >     }
> > > > >
> > > }
> > > %=============================
> > >
> > > Lilypond is alternately placing the dotted eighth notes in the
> > > upper voice to the left and then the right of the colliding eighth
> > > notes in the lower voice, rather than consistently placing them on
> > > one side. Its much easier to read if the offset is consistently to
> > > one side.
> > >
> > > I tried using \override NoteCollision #'prefer-dotted-right = ##t
> > > but this made no difference. Is there any fix short of using a
> > > whole lot of manual \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #value
> > > (there a quite a number of bars like this in the piece).
> > >
> > > Nick
> > >
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