On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 5:04 PM Carl Sorensen <carl.d.soren...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 2:01 PM Kevin Cole <dc.l...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> In my more-than-minimal example, the b16 from the first voice gets >> merged with the b8. from the second voice. When I tried to create a >> minimum (non-working) example, the two didn't merge. But, what I want >> below is for the b8. from the first voice to merge with the b8. from >> the second voice. >> >> In other words, it should look like b16 b8. g16 with the b8. in the >> middle having stems going both directions. Looking at examples that >> were over my head, I attempted \override \once \force-hshift in >> various places, but didn't accomplish anything. > > > Kevin, > > If you want the heads to merge, they need to be at the same time step. > > I think you are misinterpreting the original music. The original music has > two downstemmed notes (b natural sixteenth plus b natural eighth) at the same > time as one upstemmed note (b dotted eighth). > > To get the output in the image, just do this: > > \version "2.20.0" > \language "english" > > \layout { > \autoBeamOff > } > > global = { > \key ef \major > \time 4/4 > } > > melody = { > \relative { > \global > << > { \voiceOne b'8. } > \new Voice > { \voiceTwo b16 b8 } > >> > \oneVoice > a8 b8 c4 r8 d8 > } > } > > \score { > \new Staff { \melody } > }
Ah. I think you're right. And, when I do what you suggested in the minimal example, it works as described: Your example looks like the image I sent. But when I inject it into the full score I get the attached, which still merges the dotted eighth with the sixteenth at the start of the measure.