Re: Issue 2200 in lilypond: Dots shouldn't always be placed in one column

[lilypond]

Updates:
        Status: Accepted
        Labels: -fixed_2_15_27

Comment #12 on issue 2200 by address@hidden: Dots shouldn't always be  
placed in one column
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2200

At least one user (after prompting by me) seems to want the "gravity"  
strategy:

<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-03/msg00424.html>
> What happens if I want the old behaviour?  Do I have to move the
> Dot_column_engraver back to the Staff context and forgo the
> improvements in more complicated situations?

Yes, unless and until we implement the originally-proposed strategy, where  
Dots from different voices first align independently, but then snap to a  
common column with Dots from other voices that are nearly in the same  
vertical line anyway.

Since this is a request for a better solution to the original problem, and  
the provided example is (for purposes of dots) a minor variant of the  
original example, I suppose we re-open the issue.

> The following example looks plain weird.  I've never seen any
> hand-engraved music align dots like this.

> \relative c'' << { c16.[ c32] } \\ { a2. } >>

If I magnify I can see the misalignment that he is talking about:

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