Re: Merge upStem quarter with downStem 16th

[Kevin Barry]

OK I found a much simpler and slightly less hackish way to do it: just add

\once \override Stem.X-offset = #1.25

before the C sharp and that should keep the stem correctly positioned even if other things change.

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Kevin Barry <address@hidden> wrote:

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Knute Snortum <address@hidden> wrote:

That's quite astounding to me.  Okay, so you fake a d to get the note head on the other side of the stem.  Then in the lower voice you fake another d, make it transparent, and shift it right a bit.  Have I got it?

Yes that's correct (the shift is to the left though, not the right), which is why I described it as a hackish solution. Ideally you would move the stem to the other side of the notehead, and I tried doing that (with \override Stem.direction = #1) but I don't know enough about the internals to make it work (apparently there is a side-axis property somewhere that I could change, but I couldn't figure it out). Perhaps someone else does. Lilypond has a way of figuring out which side to place the stem on and you just need to get at that and change it.