Re: Unable to force hshift

[Robin Bannister]

Stefan Waler wrote:"
> >  \once \override NoteColumn #'horizontal-shift = #-1
> As you can see, this is part of my score - but is has no effect.

Please reconsider. 
There are two note-column-interface shifts; this is the other one. 

And if this turns out to be more like what you are looking for, 
you can then align the second f with
 \once \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #-0.5

Cheers,
Robin