On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 08:44 -0600, James Worlton wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Richard Shann
> <rich...@rshann.plus.com> wrote:
> In the following I have inserted \shiftOn and \shiftOff
> commands in a
> vain attempt to get the <e g> chord in the second voice to be
> displaced
> to the left of the a8 in voice one. I have even repeated the
> command
> immediately before these notes, but to no avail. (I am hoping
> it will
> fix the collision of the tie with the note head).
>
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>
> \version "2.18.0"
> MI = {\voiceOne \shiftOn a4.~ \shiftOn a8 b c'}
> MII = { \voiceTwo \shiftOff a8 g^~ <e_~ g^~ >8 \shiftOff <e
> g> \skip 4 }
>
> \new Staff <<
> \new Voice \clef bass \time 6/8 \MI
> \new Voice \MII
> >>
>
>
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>
> Am I doing something wrong?
>
> Richard Shann
>
>
> I don't have an solution to get Lily to do what you want, but it
> appears that the \ShiftOn and related commands only work when the two
> voices have the stems pointing in the same direction. From the NR:
>
>
> The \shiftOn command allows (but does not force) the notes in a voice
> to be shifted. When \shiftOn is applied to a voice, a note or chord in
> that voice is shifted only if its stem would otherwise collide with a
> stem from another voice, and only if the colliding stems point in the
> same direction.
>
Thanks for pointing this out - I had read that over several times and
taken it on board at least once, and then I must have forgotten that bit
as I carried on experimenting... It seems strange that the first note of
voiceOne is displaced to the left and the second to the right...
Richard
>
> Sorry to not be of more help. Maybe someone else has a solution?
>
>
> James Worlton
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