From: Davide Bonetti <[email protected]>
Date: Saturday, January 12, 2019 at 2:00 PM
To: Paolo Cantamessa <[email protected]>
Cc: Malte Meyn <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: note collision when in a chord there is a second above or below an 
unison


Do you (or someone else) know where in the source code is handled the position 
of the notes in a chord?
I think that Lilypond does the right thing.  There should never be a unison and 
a second in a chord.  In the cluster of whole notes without a stem, it seems 
harmless enough to move the notehead.  But if this same chord had a stem (e.g., 
half-note or shorter), you’d see that moving the notehead away to eliminate the 
collision also takes it away from the stem, which is musically wrong.

To properly show the notes in your example in a half-note chord, you will need 
two stems, which means you need two voices.  And if it is needed for half 
notes, it is also needed for whole notes, at least in my opinion.

To get what you want, you can manually move the note head with its associated 
accidentals.  I believe that is the proper approach, since it is inconsistent 
with standard engraving techniques.

Sincerely,

Carl

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