Re: Horizontally shifting notes (erratic behaviour)

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Hilary Snaden" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2011 11:57 PM
Subject: Horizontally shifting notes (erratic behaviour)


> It looks as though I spoke too soon. After applying various of
>
> \override Voice.NoteColumn #'force-hshift
> \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift
> \shiftOn
>
> in an engraving which needs a good many of horizontal shifts, I found
> that sometimes they work and sometimes they don't.
>
> It seems that the behaviour of NoteColumn #'force-hshift varies
> considerably with the number and configuration of voices.
>
> Examples:
>
> 1. Using voices One, Two, Two: overall alignment is right but
> force-hshift does not work.
>
> 2. Using voices One, Two, Four: force-hshift now works but the overall
> alignment is very unsatisfactory.
>
> 3. Using voices One, Two: this is the best-looking of the three (after
> the last tie is nudged up a little), but the rest of the piece really
> needs three voices.

Can you not use voice one and two here, but then change one of the voices to 
voice four?

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Phil Holmes