Re: note head direction not automatically rearranged for two adjacent pitches when two voices are used instead of a chord

[Soo Lee]

I isolated these notes to create a tiny example, but the context suggests that it makes more sense to view them as two voices. This is a Chopin piece and unlike e.g. Bach, two voices often are expressed like a chord. I wanted to avoid going back and forth between one voice and two voices too often.

I guess it is possible to just use a chord in this case. I'll try to think about other work-arounds. However, I think an ideal behavior would still be to automatically rearrange the note head direction in a case like this.

On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 12:40 AM Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> wrote:

Le 22/05/2022 à 12:33, Soo Lee a écrit :
> \new Staff
> <<
> \new Voice = "first"
> { \voiceOne g'4 }
> \new Voice= "second"
> { \voiceTwo \stemUp f'4 }
> >>
> This example shows G and F note heads are drawn in an overlapping way.
> I did not want to use a chord but wanted them to be merged to look
> like a chord. Is there an option to do this?
> Thank you!


This sounds like an XY question to me. What is the reason for
not using a chord construct if the goal is to obtain a chord?

Best,
Jean