No setting for not merging

[David Raleigh Arnold]

I have two eighth noteheads that I do not want to merge
because they are on different strings.  Since they do
not have different heads or dots, I had to prevent their
merging.  Wouldn't this example be good along with the
merges in the doc?  It's much more common than your
chord example.  daveA

<< b8 
\once \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #-1.0
b b b b b \\ a8 b a g f e >> 

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