Re: problem with horizontal shift of note

[Mats Bengtsson]

Tom Cloyd wrote:
> ...
> Well, I'm really really stuck.
>
> I tried renaming \voiceTwo to \voiceThree: I got an explosion of "too
> many clashing note columns" warnings, and NO change in my note collision
> problem.
>
> I tried sticking \shiftOn in various places in the program - beginning
> of the voice, beginning of the measure, other places. No effect.
>
> I have tried putting getting either in b in the upper voice or the a in
> the lower voice to shift - I want the b to go to the right. Nothing 
> moves.
>
> No matter what I do - no note shift. My current version of measure 15 is:
>
>  \shiftOn
>  a-1 ^"[2*]" \once \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #2.0 b |
>
> The b is still colliding with the a in the lower voice.
>
> Any ideas?
I recommend you to read Section 3.2 "Voices contain music" of the 
Learning Manual included in the LilyPond documentation for the latest 
version, especially subsection 3.2.2.

Applying the ideas described there, to measure 15 of tenor voice of your 
example, would lead to

<<  
  \new Voice {\voiceFour < e-1 >2 < a-1 >4 g |}
  { < c,-2 a-4\6 >2 < d g,-2 >} |
>>


which gives the desired note shift and no warnings.

   /Mats