Re: Stem across piano staffs

[Graham Percival]

Are the intructions in NR 2.2.1 Cross-staff stems, inadequate?
This doc section was rewritten very recently, so I'd hope that the docs
are correct on this point.

Cheers,
- Graham


On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:07:45 +0100
"Joseph Haig" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Some time ago I found a way of getting a stem to extend across two
> piano staffs, shown in the code below.  This works with 2.10 but with
> 2.11, it seems that the long stem length causes extra space to be
> added between the staffs, so they never join up.  Does anyone have a
> fix for this, or could recommend a different way of getting this
> effect?  The two attachments show show this sample in 2.10.33-1 and
> 2.11.55-2.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Joe
> 
> stemExtend = \once \override Stem #'length = #22
> noFlag = \once \override Stem #'flag-style = #'no-flag
> 
> \new PianoStaff <<
>   \new Staff \relative c' {
>     d8
>   }
>   \new Staff \relative c {
>     \clef "bass"
>     \stemUp
>     \stemExtend \noFlag <f a>
>   }
> >>
>