Re: overlaying noteheads in different voices

[Nathan Ho]

On 2016-02-08 19:27, Charles O. Lawrence wrote:
> How do I get the dotted half low a in voice 2 to overlay (blot out? I
> don't know the proper terminology) the eighth low a in voice 1?
>
> I searched the LSR, but came up empty, probably because I don't know
> the proper lilypond terminology for this notation.

Hi Charles,

I don't advise doing this because it is possible to interpret the eighth 
note as dotted. But if you must, you're looking for 
\mergeDifferentlyHeadedOn and \mergeDifferentlyDottedOn. See 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/multiple-voices#collision-resolution


Nathan