I neglected to send this to the group .. sorry! Out of date anyway, since
the a tie between mm 1 & 2 isn't working in Trevor's solution.

Trevor,

Your solution is what I was after. Thanks!

But -- why 2 as the parameter for force-hshift? Doesn't that mean two
notehead widths?

For others -- I was looking for this:

[image: Inline images 2]
from
IMSLP305644-PMLP30753-IMSLP252089-PMLP30753-Saint_Saens-Oratorio_de_Noel-Partition_Chant_et_Piano_-_scantailored.pdf,
print page 9, PDF page 11.

Thanks to all!

Fred

On 7 October 2014 18:25, Trevor Daniels <t.dani...@treda.co.uk> wrote:

>  Hi Fred
>
> Here's the way I'd do it (if I've interpreted what you wanted correctly):
>
> \relative c''' <<
>
>   { s1 |
>
>     \once \override NoteColumn.force-hshift = 2
>
>     b1~ | b2 cis | }
>
>   \\
>
>   { a1~ | <a a,>2 <g g,>4 <fis fis,> | <g g,>1 }
>
>  \\
>
>   { \voiceTwo r2 a,~ | }
>
> >>
>
>
>
> Trevor
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Frederick Bartlett <frederick.bartl...@gmail.com>
> *To:* LilyPond Users <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 07, 2014 8:57 PM
> *Subject:* Overlapping ties in different voices
>
>  Hi!
>
> I'm trying to set selection from Saint-Saën's Oratorio de Noël for my
> choir.
> In the Gloria in altissimis (p9 in the IMSLP PDFs), I found an odd
> combination of ties:
> \relative c''' {
>   << {           s1      | b1 ~                  | b2 cis  } \\
>      {           a1 ~    | a2 s2                 | s1      } \\
>      { \voiceTwo r2 a, ~ | a <g' g,>4 <fis fis,> | <g g,>1 }
>   >>
> }
>  This peculiar mess is almost right; I just need to figure out how to
> keep the b and a on the first beat of the second measure from colliding --
> but no combination of \shiftOxxx and \once \override
> NoteColumn.force-hshift that I've tried has answered the case. Leaving the
> \voiceTwo command out prevents the collision -- but at the cost of getting
> many other things wrong.
>
> To match the 19th-century original, the b should be shifted a notehead's
> width right.
>
> Help?
> Thanks!
> Fred
>
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