Re: Accidental overlaying stem

[Phil Holmes]

"Nick Payne" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
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> I think I have reported this before - a beamed note with an accidental
> on a ledger line above the stave has the accidental colliding with the
> stem of the previous note. For different notes it happens at different
> heights above the stave and also seems to depend on the length of the
> stem of the previous note:
>
> \version "2.13.30"
>
> \relative c' {
>     \time 3/4
> % \override Staff.Stem #'X-extent = #'(4 . 4)
>     \stemUp ais8[ bis'' ais] ais,[ bis'! ais] ais, [ais' ais] ais,
> [ais''! ais]
> }
>
> The second png shows the effect of activating the override, but the
> override doesn't work at all for the first B# and not to the extent that
> it should for the second last A#. How can I fix the problem - for the
> first B# in particular, as that's the actual problem I encountered in
> the score I'm engraving.
>
> Nick

Can't find where you've posted this before - not to the bug group, anyway.

This looks OK in 2.12.3 and so looks like a regression.  I've added it to
the bug tracker:

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1235

As a workaround, can you use 2.12.3?



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Phil Holmes
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