regarding bug 339

[Andrew Hawryluk]

I wrote out an organ accompaniment in LilyPond (to get it onto 4 pages
instead of 13), and it illustrates this situation very well. In eight
separate places there was a major or minor second between a dotted and
undotted note, with the dotted note on a staff space - exactly the
condition that produces the bug shown in the report
(http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=339).

In all eight cases, the engraver reversed the noteheads to place the
dotted one on the right. (The equivalent of the LilyPond tweak \once
\override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = some number, maybe 1.4 or 1.5).
Perhaps this should be the way LilyPond handles these cases after all?
Or are there good counter examples where the engraver moved the dot
upward to solve the problem?

The score was "Love Divine, All Loves Excelling", arranged by Mack
Wilberg and published by Oxford University Press.

Andrew