Re: What's the best way to fix these beams and staff spacing?

[Keith OHara]

Michael Rivers <michaeljrivers <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Adding the additional space via markup worked. Is this an issue I should
> create a bug tracker for?

There is a close one
 <http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1702>

LilyPond's strategy, spacing the staves and then deciding how to set the
beams, does a good job on the examples there if you remove the forced
stem directions.  The strategy does not work so well when the beam is
forced between staves.