On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 2:01 PM Kevin Cole <dc.l...@gmail.com> wrote:

> In my more-than-minimal example, the b16 from the first voice gets
> merged with the b8. from the second voice. When I tried to create a
> minimum (non-working) example, the two didn't merge. But, what I want
> below is for the b8. from the first voice to merge with the b8. from
> the second voice.
>
> In other words, it should look like b16 b8. g16 with the b8. in the
> middle having stems going both directions.  Looking at examples that
> were over my head, I attempted \override \once \force-hshift in
> various places, but didn't accomplish anything.
>

Kevin,

If you want the heads to merge, they need to be at the same time step.

I think you are misinterpreting the original music.  The original music has
two downstemmed notes (b natural sixteenth plus b natural eighth) at the
same time as one upstemmed note (b dotted eighth).

To get the output in the image, just do this:

\version "2.20.0"
\language "english"

\layout {
  \autoBeamOff
}

global = {
  \key ef \major
  \time 4/4
}

melody = {
  \relative {
    \global
    <<
      { \voiceOne b'8. }
      \new Voice
      { \voiceTwo b16 b8 }
    >>
    \oneVoice
    a8 b8 c4 r8 d8
  }
}

\score {
  \new Staff { \melody }
}

HOpe this helps,

Carl

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