Re: Staff change in a chord

[Mark Polesky]

Oscar van Eijk wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I wrote a piece for piano that I'm now typesetting in Lilypond.
> However, there's a construction in which I run into problems. I've
> attached an snippet that shows a bit what I need (it's the same bar
> twice); the triplets in the left hand are connected to a chord, but
> the highest notes are played by the right hand. Adding a staff change
> in the triplets is no problem (see the second bar), but that won't
> work in a chord: I tried:
>
> Is there any way to achieve this?
> Below is the code for the attached snippet.

Often music engravers will use an L-shaped bracket to indicate
hand-distributions that contradict the note-placement within the
staves. Off the top of my head, I can't think of an easy way to
do this in LilyPond without abusing commands, but visually, that's
the engraving approach I would recommend in this case. Perhaps I
can look into a way of doing this. Does anyone have a suggestion?

- Mark