Re: Dot and beam collide

[Keith OHara]

Phil Holmes <email <at> philholmes.net> writes:

> 
> Is there a reason why this collision isn't avoided?
> 

LilyPond does not yet try to shift the beam to avoid the dot.
It would be a nice enhancement, but the crude space-reservation 
that dots get (issue 1537) might cause trouble.
Issue 1175 is a similar enhancement.

Right now, the dots are placed first, during the horizontal spacing,
and try to avoid stems and flags, although the length of beamed stems 
can only be guessed at this point.  The Beam is put on later, and only 
recently tries to avoid notes in other voices.