Re: Staff change in a chord

[Oscar van Eijk]

Hi all,

Thank u all for your answers.
I'll go for Alexander's solution. Indeed not the most beautiful one in the code, but the result is exactly what I want.

Oscar

On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 20:21 +0200, Alexander Kobel wrote:
> Oscar van Eijk wrote:
> > 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: [...]
> > Is there any way to achieve this? [...]
>
> Hi, Oscar,
>
> I don't think this is possible inside the chord; however, there is a way 
> using an additional voice on the upper staff. Which is semantically ugly 
> as hell, but well... ;-)
>
> I attach my solution; note that you probably have to manually adjust the 
> tuplet number positions for kneed beams and set the ignore-collisions 
> property for noise-free compilation, or use (not my preferred look) the 
> stemUp-variant for the last note of the tuplets.
> For more information, look at 
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Common-notation-for-keyboards#Cross_002dstaff-stems 
> and 
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/input/lsr/lilypond-snippets/Simultaneous-notes.html#Simultaneous-notes 
> where I borrowed some tweaks.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Alexander