Re: Issue 984 in lilypond: Noteheads don't merge when one of the voices contains a second

[lilypond]

Comment #23 on issue 984 by address@hidden: Noteheads don't merge when one of  
the voices contains a second
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=984

I don't see the need for the red tape.  It's the next thing I need to  
finish (currently I am on the Linux fair in Chemnitz and mostly involved  
with talking to people and preparing my talk tomorrow), and I have started  
coding it.  It is annoyingly extensive work since the existing code is  
based on a lot of assumptions (which _are_ valid in the majority of cases,  
or we would have seen more problems by now), but even though they are  
mostly valid, they don't make sense.  If the assumption is that you have  
just the same duration and notehead style on one stem, intermingling  
looking at just one notehead, looking at the stem, looking at the notehead  
currently being spaced without rhyme or reason might seem all ok.

But it takes time to analyze what really makes sense when you stop assuming  
that everything will be the same anyway.  Even though it will be in most  
cases.

I am afraid that I've drunk to much to make sense right now.