I need help with this construction: \once \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #{doesn't matter what you put here 'cause it rarely works anyway}

My ly code problem demo snippet is here: http://pastie.org/8433947

After two hours of futility tonight, and a review of my previous go around with this problem, I still can't figure this out. Never really understood "the fix", although I did get it work, once.

- the previous problem: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/horizontal-shift-of-note-column-not-working-td15374.html

- the fix: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-04/msg00030.html

Am I the only one who ever needs to shift notes horizontally to clean up a score? Seem hard to believe. But it doesn't work reliably, and the documentation is minimal at best.

In the code snippet, in the bass voice, measures 2, 3, & 4 there is no column collision. Then suddenly in m. 5 - BAM. But it's fixable (and fixed, in the code). An attempt to fix the collision by moving the alto voice in the same measure failed. Why?

Measure 7 bass and alto voices won't budge, period. Am baffled by this.

Beat 1 of measures 8, 9 have the same problem (as does much of my score).

There appears to be NO other way to move notes out of vertical collisions. With this barely working, what do people do?

Thanks for any help!

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Tom Cloyd
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