RE: stemless note

[Mark Stephen Mrotek]

Mr. Morley:

Thank you for your response and suggestion.
This "error" is the only occurrence in the 118 measure piece. Can I insert
the "\newVoice" just here and revert for the rest of the piece (already
completed).

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Morley [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 12:27 PM
To: Mark Stephen Mrotek
Cc: lilypond-user
Subject: Re: stemless note

2013/8/27 Mark Stephen Mrotek <address@hidden>:
> Hello:
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> In the attached snip, the first beat of the second measure has a "f4."
> without a stem.
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> The error messages suggests using polyphonic voices. Since I am using 
> << \\
>>>, I do not know what that means.
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> I have tried changing stem direction - \stemUp, \stemDown.
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> I have tried shifting the note - \once \override NoteColumn 
> #'force-hshift = #xx.
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> Neither worked. What should I do now?
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> Thank you.
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> Mark



Hi Mark,

the << \\ >> construct fails in complicated situations quite often.
Better use some (perhaps named) \new Voice together with \voiceXxx.

\version "2.16.2"

global = {
  \key g \minor
  \time 2/2
}

rightOne = \relative c'' {
  \global

  \voiceOne
  g1~ | g |

}

rightTwo = \relative c'' {
  \global

  \voiceFour
  < d, f >8 d g, d' f d
  \voiceThree
  g,^[ d'] |
  f4. d8 f4. d8

}

rightThree = \relative c'' {
  \global

  \voiceTwo
  s2. g,4~ | g1

}
left = \relative c' {
  \global

  b,,8 g' d' g, b, g' d' g, |
  b, g' d' g, b, g' d' g, |

}

\score {
  \new PianoStaff <<
    \new Staff = "right" <<
    \new Voice \rightOne
    \new Voice \rightTwo
    \new Voice \rightThree
    >>

    \new Staff = "left" { \clef bass \left }
  >>

}

HTH,
  Harm