Thanks for the replies. I went with forcing and reverting the hshift and
that works great. I really appreciate this community.
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 11:03 PM Keith OHara <k-ohara5...@oco.net> wrote:
> Knute Snortum <ksnortum <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> >
> > I have a piece that I'm working on that has a measure with four very
> crowded voices. I expected to have to resolve note collisions, but I'm
> having some problems with \shiftOn and \mergeDifferentlyHeadedOn.
>
> You don't need mergeDifferentlyHeadedOn because the heads are both filed.
>
> Two things make merging the inner voices awkward in LilyPond
> LilyPond considers merging only the voices the with the smallest \shift.
> LilyPond moves voices with larger shifts always toward the stem side.
>
> The simplest, I think, is to remove the two instances of
> \mergeDifferentlyHeadedOn \shiftOn
> and set the voices as usual with outer voices One and Two outer,
> inner voices Three and Four inner, but 3 overrides
>
> \new Voice { \voiceOne
> \shiftOnn % with 2 'n's to indicate that this voice
> % this voice shifts a lot, more than voiceFour, ...
> \override NoteColumn.force-hshift = -0.2 % but force the direction
> \highVoice }
> \new Voice { \voiceThree \upperMiddle
>
> \new Voice { \voiceFour
> \stemUp % unusual for voiceFour
> \lowerMiddle }
> \new Voice { \voiceTwo \lowVoice
>
> Maybe the things noted with comments are temporary deviations from the
> usual arrangement of voices, so you might insert them in sequence in
> the definitions of the variables that contain the notes.
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