Re: Stem across piano staffs

[Joseph Haig]

Thanks, that is perfect.  I was missing "\override Stem #'cross-staff
= ##t", which has presumably been added for 2.11.

2008/8/15 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> 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>
>>   }
>> >>
>>
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