RE: Dot getting divorced on dotted note

[Nick Payne]

Mark

Thanks. Your suggestion fixes the problem when applied to my small snippet,
but when I make the same change in the actual score, the dots on dotted
notes get placed in the center of the noteheads.

Nick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Polesky [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, 6 August 2009 1:09 AM
> To: address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Dot getting divorced on dotted note
> 
> 
> Nick Payne wrote:
> > I'm setting a piece in three voices (guitar arrangement of
> > Schubert's song Ständchen). The problem is that when the top
> > voice has a dotted chord that results in the notes being offset
> > left/right of the stem, this results in the dot on the note in
> > the bass voice getting separated from the note. This snippet
> > shows the problem. I know I can use \override #'extra-offset to
> > move the dot, which is what I have been doing, but is this
> > expected behaviour or a bug? I couldn't find anything in the
> > documentation mentioning this.
> 
> One thing you could try is moving the Dot_column_engraver from the
> Staff context to the Voice context. Off the top of my head, I'm
> not sure what types of other problems this will cause (ultimately
> it may be a kludge), but it's worth experimenting. I'll ask the
> other developers.
> 
> - Mark
> 
> \layout {
>   \context {
>     \Staff
>     \remove Dot_column_engraver
>   }
>   \context {
>     \Voice
>     \consists Dot_column_engraver
>   }
> }

standchen.png
Description: PNG image