RE: Left/right noteheads in chord containing second

2009-04-08 Thread Nick Payne
Wednesday, 8 April 2009 15:43 > To: Nick Payne; lilypond-user@gnu.org; Kieren MacMillan > Subject: Re: Left/right noteheads in chord containing second > > Nick, > > Here's a rather awkward solution. How often would you need this? And > just out of curiosity, why? > I

Re: Left/right noteheads in chord containing second

2009-04-08 Thread Mats Bengtsson
There have been a number of requests over the years for this kind of feature. Primarily to get more understandable layout in cases where there are accidentals on some of the notes and you want the accidental to be close to the corresponding note head, if I remember correctly. Search the mailing

Re: Left/right noteheads in chord containing second

2009-04-08 Thread Mark Polesky
Nick, this is a little less awkward, but you still have to adjust the 'length and 'extra-offset properties of Stem in some cases. But now you don't have to guess the X-offsets. The macro calculates the appropriate X-offsets based on the note-values. There are still some quirks though. It fails

Re: Left/right noteheads in chord containing second

2009-04-07 Thread Mark Polesky
Nick, Here's a rather awkward solution. How often would you need this? And just out of curiosity, why? I guess I would use something like this if I were making a "circle the correct notation" exercise in a textbook or something. Anyway, the solution I have here would be a pain if you needed to d

Re: Left/right noteheads in chord containing second

2009-04-04 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Nick, Is it possible, in a chord containing a second, to specify which note in the second should appear to the left of the stem and which to the right? The order of the notes doesn't change anything - ie and gis,> both have D to the left and E to the right. My guess is, use the \tweak

Left/right noteheads in chord containing second

2009-04-04 Thread Nick Payne
Is it possible, in a chord containing a second, to specify which note in the second should appear to the left of the stem and which to the right? The order of the notes doesn't change anything - ie and both have D to the left and E to the right. Nick __