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Chapter 4: Tweaking output 116<br />
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The lower two notes of the first chord (i.e, those in the third voice) should not be shifted away<br />
from the note column of the higher two notes. To correct this we set force-hshift, which is<br />
a property of NoteColumn, of these notes to zero. The lower note of the second chord is best<br />
placed just to the right of the higher notes. We achieve this by setting force-hshift of this<br />
note to 0.5, ie half a note head’s width to the right of the note column of the higher notes.<br />
Here’s the final result:<br />
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4.5.3 Real music example<br />
We end this section on Tweaks by showing the steps to be taken to deal with a tricky example<br />
which needs several tweaks to produce the desired output. The example has been deliberately<br />
chosen to illustrate the use of the Notation Reference to resolve unusual problems with notation.<br />
It is not representative of more usual engraving process, so please do not let these difficulties<br />
put you off! Fortunately, difficulties like these are not very common!<br />
The example is from Chopin’s Première Ballade, Op. 23, bars 6 to 9, the transition from the<br />
opening Lento to Moderato. Here, first, is what we want the output to look like, but to avoid<br />
over-complicating the example too much we have left out the dynamics, fingering and pedalling.
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