Re: Tie across voices

[Nathan Ho]

On 2016-02-12 15:37, Joseph N. Srednicki wrote:
> In the following three-beat example, I am trying to tie the
> upper-voice note in the second beat with the lower-voice note of the
> third beat.
>
> My example seems to work somewhat, but the notes of the upper and
> lower voices of the second and third beats do not align vertically as
> they should.
>
> Can someone please explain how to align the upper and lower voices in
> the second and third beats or another approach to the problem of
> coding the tie across voices?
>
> I tried using \shiftOn to align the voices, but I was unsuccessful.
>
> I used Google to search and found the snippet located at
> http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=8 [1]. I tried to follow this
> snippet as an example.

Hi Joseph,

Here's how you fix the shifting problem:

\language "english"

\relative c' {\key d\major
  \time 3/8
  <<
    { fs8 b d }
    \\
    { cs,8 es b' }
    \\
    {
      \override NoteColumn.force-hshift = #0
      \hideNotes
      s8 b8~ b8
    }
  >>
}


Nathan