Re: Issue 2374 in lilypond: Placement of dot depending on \stemDown or \voiceTwo

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Comment #2 on issue 2374 by address@hidden: Placement of dot depending  
on \stemDown or \voiceTwo
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2374

On 3 March 2012 03:20, Keith OHara wrote:
..

> \voiceTwo sets the directions of all the usual notation elements that
> are placed differently to distinguish voices on a staff.  The list of
> those things is in 'music-functions.scm':
> (AccidentalSuggestion DotColumn Dots Fingering LaissezVibrerTie
> LigatureBracket PhrasingSlur RepeatTie Rest Script Slur Stem TextScript
> Tie TupletBracket TrillSpanner)

> \stemDown is for when we want to change the stem direction only.

> Sometimes we want to place Dots independently of the Stems direction,
> when voices cross :
> \relative c''\new Staff <<
>  \new Voice {\voiceTwo b2.} %% \stemDown here makes this more clear
>  \new Voice {\voiceOne f2.}>>
> In versions after 2.15.27, the note-collision code adjust the Dot
> direction automatically in these cases.

> If there are cases were the current behavior causes trouble, we could
> maybe have Dots direction be undefined by default, and place Dots based
> on Stem direction unless the user explicitly sets a Dots direction.