How to structure piano music?

[Noeck]

Hi,

I am trying to engrave small pieces for piano and I realize how
difficult that can be. What should be my approach?

The example is meant to be one staff of a piano staff group
(PianoStaff). I don't want to have any shifts for notes played at the
same time. The voices should combine to chords (as it is in the last
measure).

I tried 4 possibilities (shown in four measures):
1) << {} {} {} >> : default way to stack music
2) \voiceOne|Three|Two : mark them as voices to avoid collisions
3) \voiceOne|Four|Two : just a variant of 2)
4) version 1) with manual setting of stem and slur directions

1) to 3) are not what I want. 4) looks ok, but is that really the way to
go? Do I really have to set all directions of stems, slurs,
articulations, etc. manually? Or is there a way to automatically combine
voices to chords for piano, such that they split when necessary like on
the first beat and that they form chords wherever possible like
during the remainder of the example measure?

Cheers,
Joram

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