Comment #5 on issue 2527 by [email protected]: Finger-flag collision
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2527
The flag side is the last resort for fingering, so we only need do it when
the music is very tight. Moving the numbers away from the stem would make
them apply to the next chord. When it gets this tight I whiteout.
Specifically, la raison d'être of the patch comes from perusing Phil
Hézaine's work on Schumann
Could you be a bit more specific? In Album for the Young, the music does
not get tight enough to put fingerings on the side.
Do you really want the patchy run for this ?
