Re: rest position in a polyphonic staff

[Colin Hall]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 08:50:24AM -0700, Eluze wrote:
> 
> 
> janek.lilypond wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 3:35 PM, -Eluze <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'd like to use \oneVoice in the upper voice because the lower voice is
> >> far
> >> away and does not collide with the upper one.
> > 
> > My experience says that not using \voiceXxx is asking for trouble.
> > How to achieve what you want with \voiceOne on?  Use \stemNeutral :)
> > 
> > 
> 
> lovely, thanks! (and I had never thought of using this combination...)
> 
> now in the same piece this leads to another problem:
> 
> \new Staff <<
>   \set Timing.beamExceptions = #'()
>   \new Voice \relative c'' {
>     \voiceOne
>     \stemNeutral 
>     a8 c e f e d f e
>   }
>   \new Voice \relative {
>     \voiceTwo
>     a1
>   }
> >>
> 
> this generates a warning in the log and the first stems [a and c] go down.
> it would be helpful if I could override the flipping position for stems - is
> there a command for that? (otherwise I will continuously be flipping between
> \stemNeutral and \voiceOne

I had a look for a documented way to determine the "flipping position" and 
couldn't find anything.

Looks like Janek has provided a reminder of correct usage.

Is there still a bug report here, Eluze?

Cheers,
Colin.


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Colin Hall