Re: Single staff polyphony problems

[Nick Payne]

On 22/07/10 22:38, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
>    
> > For some reason, a) the rest in voiceOne doesn't avoid the top e in voiceFour 
> > without being explicitly placed (don't know why, as similar rests in voiceOne 
> > manage to automatically avoid notes in voiceFour in the couple of dozen 
> > previous bars in the piece where this construction occurs, and b) the 
> > horizontal spacing between the quarter notes in voices one and four and the 
> > first eighth note in voiceFour is so small as to make it seem that the notes 
> > are simultaneous.
> >      
> This doesn't "unbug" the issue... but replacing s8 with
>
>      \once \override Rest #'transparent = ##t r8
>
> at least gives better spacing.
>    
Thanks. I actually fixed the horizontal spacing by using

\once \override Staff.Stem #'X-extent = #'(0 . 1.5)

before the quarter note in voiceOne, to force a space after the stem.

Nick