I have a chord with a tied A flat, and a simultaneously played A natural. LilyPond's default behaviour is to combine these notes and place a natural in front, which totally obscures what is required. If I move the untied note, the accidental doesn't move with it, and I initially ended up with the natural in front of the note which was flat; I then learnt how to move the accidental separately, and that's kind of fine, but a real palaver, it seems to me.
However I still haven't been able to solve my last problem, which is that both of these notes are (double-)dotted, but after the movement only one note ends up with dots. I just can't see how to get the extra dots back (I know I'd have to move the shifted note even further, of course). The manuscript I am working from looks like this: The code I have so far is below. I'd appreciate any hints either as to how to add the other dots, or how to improve my handling of this more generally if there's an easier way I've missed. Oh, and this small sample generates four instances of the error message: "programming error: cyclic dependency: calculation-in-progress encountered for #'adjacent-pure-heights (VerticalAxisGroup) ; continuing, cross fingers". I have no idea whatsoever where this is coming from. Thanks, Paul \version "2.23.3" \language english global = { \accidentalStyle dodecaphonic-no-repeat \override Beam.concaveness = #3 \override TupletBracket.bracket-visibility = ##t } IpriRH = \relative d'' { \clef treble \time 2/4 \global s4 \set tieWaitForNote = ##t \tuplet 3/2 { \voiceOne \change Staff = "priLH" af,8 \change Staff = "priRH" << { \once \override Tie.extra-offset = #'(0.0 . -0.5) f'~ g_-~} \new Voice {\stemDown f4*2/3_- \stemNeutral} >> } | <f g>4.. \set tieWaitForNote = ##f \oneVoice s16 | } IpriLH = \relative c { \clef bass \time 2/4 \global s4 af'4_-_~ | << { \voiceOne \crossStaff af4.. } \new Voice { \voiceTwo \once \override Score.AccidentalPlacement.right-padding = #-2.7 \once \override NoteColumn.force-hshift = #2.2 a4..^- } >> \oneVoice s16 } \score { << \new PianoStaff << \set PianoStaff.instrumentName = #"Primo" \new Staff = "priRH" { \clef treble \IpriRH } \new Staff = "priLH" { \clef bass \IpriLH } >> >> \layout { \context { \PianoStaff \consists #Span_stem_engraver } } }