Re: Dot-notehead collision

[Nick Payne]

On 16/03/11 08:59, address@hidden wrote:
> On Mar 15, 2011, at 5:04 PM, Phil Holmes wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trevor Daniels"<address@hidden>
> > To:<address@hidden>; "lilypond-user"<address@hidden>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:24 PM
> > Subject: Re: Dot-notehead collision
> >
> >
> > > address@hidden wrote Tuesday, March 15, 2011 5:00 PM
> > >
> > > > \relative c' { \time 3/4<<  {<cis a'>4<b fis'>2 } \\ { d2. }>>  }
> > > >
> > > > Produces the attached output.  Is there a way to get it so that the dot does 
> > > > not collide with the notehead (w/o resorting to extra offsets and the like)?
> > > I don't think so.  You'll need 'force-hshift.
> > >
> > > Trevor
> >
> > Agreed. I tried a number of other things, but h-shift worked out of the box.
> Perhaps a stupid question - in traditional engraving, is there ever an instance 
> where, in 2 voice polyphony, the note column w/ a downward pointing stem is 
> placed to the right of note column with an upward pointing stem?

Here's an example from a Schott score.

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