Re: notes sharing stems

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Wilkinson" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 11:27 PM
Subject: notes sharing stems


> \version 2.13.34
>
> I've got three percussion voices sharing a staff. When I made the bottom 
> two voices be \voiceTwo and \voiceFour, I got downward stems, but each 
> note had its own stem. Then I tried making them both be \voiceTwo. That 
> gave me the printed output that I wanted: when notes coincide, they share 
> a stem. However, I got lots of "ignoring too many colliding note columns" 
> warnings.
>
> Warnings make me nervous. I'm considering putting both those parts in a 
> single voice and writing chords when notes coincide.
>
> Anybody have a better suggestion?
>
> thanks

You can turn off the warning with

\override NoteColumn #'ignore-collision = ##t


Bear in mind that this also turns off the "avoid collisions" calculations, 
so the layout _may_ be different.

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Phil Holmes