RE: How do you move a note horizontally?

[Jonathan Wilkes]

Ok, trying it right now...

--- On Wed, 7/29/09, Nick Payne <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Nick Payne <address@hidden>
> Subject: RE: How do you move a note horizontally?
> To: "'Jonathan Wilkes'" <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 10:25 PM
> \once \override NoteColumn
> #'force-hshift = #x
> 
> Set x to negative to move to the left, positive to the
> right.
> 
> Nick
> 

Hi Nick,
     I can't get it to work:

\version "2.12.2"

\relative c' {
        c \once \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #8 d e f
}

Am I using it correctly?

I also tried the NonMusicalPaperColumn thingy that's listed in the NR, and 
it won't do anything either.

-Jonathan