postion of accidentals in Chords (cluster-like)

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been using your wonderful lilypond (2.1.6) on my OS X 10.2.8 for a 
> few weeks...
> Due to my interests in writing modern, atonal music with something 
> special harmonic situations
> I recognized , that the positioning of accidentals in a chord is a 
> little incorrect:

> Even better :
> A  famous way of notation Bartok used is
> (it's a suggestion or possible solution) to implement a notation, you
> divide the stem into two stems : if  two notes in a chord are put on 
> the same line/between the same line are
> now written with two little (like a branch of a tree) short stems!
> It would'nt be any more confusal.
> A musician can now read it very quickly as the correct chord ...
> 
> Thanks for considering a solution for that "little" problem;

I've added the following to the manual.

        There is no support for clusters where the same note occurs with
        different accidentals in the same chord. In this case, it is
        recommended to use enharmonic transcription, or to use special cluster
        notation (see @ref{Clusters}).

the merit of the branch notation is debated (Hi David!).  Regardless
of its pros and cons, it breaks a lot of conventions, and I don't
think it will be implemented in the near future.


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