Re: Clashing note columns

[David Kastrup]

Kris Van Bruwaene <address@hidden> writes:

>> David Kastrup wrote:
>>> 
>>> Kris Van Bruwaene <address@hidden> writes:
>>> 
>>>> I am typesetting a choral piece wich has two voices coming in unisono on
>>>> a
>>>> single staff, one with a whole note (g1), the other with two half notes
>>>> (g2
>>>> g2). The whole note and the first half note clash at the start of the
>>>> measure. I tried to avoid the clash with the remedies given in the
>>>> Lilypond
>>>> manual:
>>>> 1) \once \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #2.7 g1
>>>> to shift the whole note to the right in the measure; no effect. And
>>>> 2) in the lyrics:
>>>> { al -- le -- lu -- \once \override LyricText #'self-alignment-X =
>>>> #CENTER
>>>> ia } (from Lilypond Snippets Lyrics alignment)
>>>> No effect either, probably because the syllable "ia" is too short.  How
>>>> can
>>>> I solve this?
>>> 
>>> I can't quite see your example code.
>
> Here is an example.
>
> Kris
> http://old.nabble.com/file/p32951130/lilytest.ly lilytest.ly

Well, first of all it is a surprisingly bad idea to redefine Lilypond's
existing commands \voiceOne and \voiceTwo since you will actually need
them for solving your problem.

Once you have renamed your own commands to something sensible, use
Lilypond's own \voiceOne in the upper of your two voices, and Lilypond's
own \voiceTwo in the lower of your two voices (I'd do that in the score
after \global rather than in the music definitions, but that's a matter
of taste).

The collisions will then get resolved amicably without any property
meddling of your own.

-- 
David Kastrup