Hi Jakob,
> Does anyone know how to align VoiceOne (green) further left to match the
> horizontal position of VoiceFour (red)?
You could switch the \voiceTwo and \voiceFour commands… but that creates an
even less pleasing result [IMO].
There are also ways to tweak the horizontal position of the noteheads; I just
don’t have time right now to give examples (sorry!).
> In the final bar, is it possible to align VoiceTwo (blue) and VoiceFour
> (red), without causing them to share a stem?
Something like this?
leftTwo = \relative c {
\global << { \voiceFour \override NoteHead.color = #red c4 c' h a | h g a h |
\tweak Stem.length #5 c a8\rest c h a h g }
\new Voice { \voiceTwo \override NoteHead.color = #blue c,2 h4 a |
h g a h | \tweak NoteColumn.force-hshift -0.5 c2 g\rest } >>
}
For what it’s worth, I would suggest a restructuring of your code, to (a) avoid
potential potential issues if you start adding things [especially things with
timing!] to the \global variable, and (b) to improve [at least IMO] readability
and maintainability. Here’s a possibility I quickly whipped up:
%%% SUGGESTED STRUCTURE (BEGIN) %%%
\version "2.25.11"
\language "deutsch"
global = {
\key c \major
\time 4/4
}
rightOne = \relative c'' {
c8 d e fis g d e fis | g d g4. f16 e d8 f~| f e16 d e8 r r2 |
}
rightTwo = \relative c'' {
g4. a8 h4 c | h4. h8 a4. g8 | c2 r2 |
}
leftOne = \relative c' {
\override NoteHead.color = #green
e4 r d c | d2 c4 d | g, f'\rest r2 |
}
leftTwo = \relative c' {
\override NoteHead.color = #blue
c,2 h4 a | h g a h | \tweak NoteColumn.force-hshift -0.5 c2 g\rest
}
leftFour = \relative c {
\override NoteHead.color = #red
c4 c' h a | h g a h | \tweak Stem.length #5 c a8\rest c h a h g
}
\score {
\new PianoStaff <<
\new Staff = "right" <<
\global
<<
{ \voiceOne \rightOne }
\\ \new Voice { \voiceTwo \rightTwo }
>>
>>
\new Staff = "left" <<
\global \clef bass
<<
{ \voiceOne \leftOne }
\\ \new Voice { \voiceTwo \leftTwo }
\\ \new Voice { \voiceFour \leftFour }
>>
>>
>>
}
%%% SUGGESTED STRUCTURE (END) %%%
Here, almost all presentation decisions are left as late as possible (i.e., in
the \score area), with the exception of the colour setting(s) and the
voice-specific \tweaks (which I would personally also take out of the content
code and add to the presentation layer, likely by way of the edition-engraver,
if this were a “real piece“ of mine). This structure also puts all of the
voice-splitting in the same place in the code, rather than having some in the
variable definition area and some in the score area.
Hope all of this helps!
Kieren.
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