>> If you need this frequently, you may be interested in the attached
>> code and pdf (your example is first).
>
> This is very nice, thanks! Looking at the examples I noticed that the
> 'melting point' seems to depend on the stem length: if there are
> beams, the melting point has a larger distance to the note heads than
> without. Is there a reason for this? In Gould's examples ('Behind
> Bars', p. 51), the distance to the note heads is fixed, regardless of
> a beam; see attached image.
BTW, I also notice in Gould's image that if the stem goes down in a
chord cluster, stems of notes on the right-hand side are attached to
the *right* of the note head, which helps avoid collisions with the
accidental.
Werner