Re: Autochange chords PS

[Simon Albrecht]

Am 12.03.2017 um 00:20 schrieb Joseph Austin:

RE: Is is possible to automatically split chords between the two staves of a PianoStaff?

If you’re making another contribution on that topic, just keep it in the same thread by replying. That’s important for other readers as well as for the archives.

PS.

Here's another example--
chords do switch when they don't cross staves--

except for the third chord in this example.

\version "2.19.40"

\new PianoStaff {

  \autochange {

  <c'' c'''>4

    <c, c>4

    <c' c'' c'''>4 

    <c, c c'>4 

  }

}

There is definitely no way to have a chord split between staves automatically now. That might be a feature request, but a very large and improbable one.
In order to fake cross-staff chords, you need the music function \crossStaff, which will connect the stems of chords in different staves – you’ll find that explained in the N<otation>R<eference>.
A more important feature request would be to have \autochange look at the entire chord instead of just the first note. I can’t file an issue right now; please write to the bug list with a concise feature request.

Best, Simon