Thanks Abraham
I have read that section again and I am still a bit confused at what I am
seeing in this attempt at a MWE. In bar 2 the voiceTwo notes are shifted
right, but in bar 5 the voiceOne note, a dotted note, is being shifted to the
right. I have tried using the Staff.NoteCollision.prefer-dotted-right override
but that doesn’t seem to help. In bar 7 there is a different construct with
temporary voices and there the shifting looks like what I want. I am trying to
get the dotted stemUp note in bar 5 to be shifted left.

\version "2.24.0"
\include "english.ly"
SopranoMusic = \relative c'
{
fs4 fs e | d d d | b'2 b4 | a d, e | d2.^\markup "why right?" | s2. | s2.
}
AltoMusic = \relative c'
{
d4 d cs | b cs c | b2 d4 | d d cs | d4 d e | << { fs4 e d | e2. } \\ { d2 s4
| d b cs } >>
}
\score {
\new Staff
<<
\key d \major
\time 3/4
\new Voice = "sopranos"
{
\override Staff.NoteCollision.prefer-dotted-right = ##f
\voiceOne
<<
{ \SopranoMusic }
>>
}
\new Voice = "altos"
{
\voiceTwo
<<
{ \AltoMusic }
>>
}
>>
\layout { }
}
Thanks,
Carolyn
> On Jul 31, 2023, at 10:36 PM, Abraham Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi, Carolyn!
>
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 8:22 AM Carolyn Beeton <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> The default when there are two voices with colliding notes is to shift the
>> voice with upstems (odd-numbered voices) to the right and voices with
>> downstems to the left. I would like the opposite - i.e. voiceOne, with
>> stems up, shifted left. Is this possible? (not as a single override, but
>> throughout the entire piece)
>
> I trust you've seen this section in the NR on collision resolution, but if
> not, here it is:
>
> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/multiple-voices#collision-resolution
>
>
> Do any of these techniques not help? And if not, perhaps you could show a
> screenshot or provide a small example of the shifting you don't want so we
> can target the problem.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Abraham
