Re: Cross-staff stems

[Pavel Roskin]

On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 16:45:12 +0100
"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> wrote:

> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2427 links to an
> example implementation of cross-staff stems done by Pavel.  It's now
> sort-of delivered as part of lilypond code, as a snippet in
> snippets/new.  AFAICS it's an almost perfectly workable
> implementation.  I think that an enhancement would be to remove the
> flags for the crossing stems - they're never there (AFAICS) in real
> music, and Gould shows the stems without flags. It's trivial to do
> this by adding an override/revert to the crossStaff function.

Sounds good to me.  Perhaps we want to hide beams as well.

> I don't see why this isn't implemented as a standard feature of
> lilypond, instead of just being an example in a snippet that's not
> even in the documentation.

We have an issue for that:
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2270

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin