Re: Cue Stem Alignment of Merged Noteheads

[Colin Hall]

Jay Anderson writes:

> \version "2.16.0"
>
> mus = \relative c'
> {
>   c8 d e f g a b c
> }
>
> \score
> {
>   \new Staff
>   <<
>     \new CueVoice
>     {
>       \voiceOne
>       % Workaround:
>       %\override Stem #'X-offset = #1.22
>       \mus
>     }
>     \new Voice
>     {
>       \voiceTwo
>       \mus
>     }
>   >>
> }
>
> The cue stems look like they're coming out of the middle of the shared
> notehead. It's easy to manually push the stems over (in practice this needs
> to be done on a note-by-note basis), but it'd be nice if this happened
> automatically.

Thanks for the bug report, Jay, and for reporting the workaround.

I can't imagine how to have Lilypond automatically tweak the X alignment
of the cue voice stems when the noteheads overlap. I hope the devs can
come up with something.

Tracker here:

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3099

Cheers,
Colin.

-- 
Colin Hall