Re: horizontal shift of note column not working

[Phil Holmes]

That does it.  I was trying to think of a way to place something invisible 
as an anchor, but I'm not learned enough at this yet.

But the horizontal shift is now a bit big :-)

--
Phil Holmes


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alexander Kobel" <address@hidden>
To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Dmytro O. Redchuk" <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>; 
"Lilypond" <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: horizontal shift of note column not working


> Phil Holmes wrote:
> > I've cut Tom's code down quite a bit to try to understand the issue, 
> > since I've been trying to do something similar.  I hope this is easier to 
> > follow.
> >
> > It's clear that the reason that the rest collides with the note is that 
> > the rest has been shifted right to avoid colliding with earlier notes. 
> > So what's then needed is a command to shift the note right.  When I 
> > looked, I couldn't find one, so any guidance would be appreciated by me, 
> > too.
>
> Okay, so since I'm at it: to give the note some anchor, add an invisible 
> note in some other voice as follows:
>
>   \once \override Voice.Rest #'extra-offset = #'(2.5 . 0) a2\rest
>   <<
>     { \once \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #8.0 b4-0 } \\
>     { \hideNotes g4 \unHideNotes }
>   >> |
>
> (That should replace the whole measure in Tom's original example.)  The g 
> note kind of "allocates" some position for the whole chord or beat, w.r.t. 
> which the force-hshift works.
>
>
> HTH,
> Alexander