RE: Tie across voices

[Joseph N. Srednicki]

Thanks, Nathan.

Your solution worked perfectly.

Joe Srednicki

-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Ho [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 10:42 PM
To: Joseph N. Srednicki <address@hidden>
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Subject: Re: Tie across voices

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