Re: Engraving a close harmony

[Saul Tobin]

I could be hallucinating but I think I remember seeing someone post an attempt at an engraver that handles chromatically altered unisons. Might be worth searching back.

On Sat, Dec 7, 2024 at 8:40 PM William Rehwinkel via LilyPond user discussion <lilypond-user@gnu.org> wrote:

Dear Knute,

Here is the best that I could do...but I'm not sure that this is the
most correct solution or that it will look good in context...

Thanks,
-William

% --------------
\version "2.25.18"
\language "english"

\paper {
   ragged-right = ##t
   indent = 0
}

righthandUpper = \relative {
   \time 6/8
   r16 <d'' f>( q <gs, ds'> q <d' e> \voiceOne e f f \once \override
Accidental.X-extent = #'(0 . 0)  ds! \once \override Accidental.X-extent
= #'(0 . 0) ds! e16) |
}

rightHandLower = \relative {
   \time 6/8
   \voiceFour s4. d''16 gs, gs \once \override Accidental.X-extent =
#'(0 . 0) \once \override NoteColumn.force-hshift = #2  \once \override
Accidental.extra-offset = #'(2.9 . 0) d'! \once \override
Accidental.X-extent = #'(0 . 0)\once \override NoteColumn.force-hshift =
#2  \once \override Accidental.extra-offset = #'(2.9 . 0) d! \once
\override NoteHead.extra-spacing-width = #'(-2 . 0) gs, |
}

\new Staff <<
   \new Voice \righthandUpper
   \new Voice \rightHandLower
 >>
% --------------

On 12/7/24 19:09, Knute Snortum wrote:
> I have a Chopin piece that I'm engraving and I've run into a problem
> with some of the close harmonies he writes.  He has a chord with both a
> d-sharp and a d-natural in it.  The edition I'm using uses two voices
> and doesn't merge the two d's (see attached picture).  I've tried this
> in LilyPond but I can't prevent the merging of the two notes (see second
> attached picture, measure one.)  Is there a way to stop LilyPond from
> merging two notes?
>
> I've asked this question before and one of the suggestions was to use an
> enharmonic note, in this case e-flat for the d-sharp (see attached,
> measures two through four). To the pianists reading this: which measure
> is the least confusing?  I've also attached the code I used to create
> the four measures.
>
> --
> Knute Snortum
>

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