Re: Staff spacing for Z beam

[Keith OHara]

Helge Kruse <Helge.Kruse <at> gmx.net> writes:

> I want to write cross staff 
> beams like you can see in the attached example.

>    \override VerticalAxisGroup #'staff-staff-spacing #'padding = #10

LilyPond needs to be explicitly told that this applies to a Staff, etc.,
with \override PianoStaff.VerticalAxisGroup ...

For reasons I have forgotten, it works better to 

\new PianoStaff \with {
  \override StaffGrouper #'staff-staff-spacing #'padding = #5
} << ... >>


> - How can I increase the inter-staff space for the required measures?

Making space locally is probably the better option.  You need to find
something that does not overlay the staves (that is, not the Stems) and 
tell LilyPond to give that thing more space

  \once\override DynamicText #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(0 . 7) 
  <h, dis>8\p \lower <cis cis,> \upper

> - How can I overwrite the angle of the beams to make it horizontal.

I don't know this.  Probably something in the "internals" manual is required.