Re: tieWaitForNote across staves

[Jonathan Wilkes]

--- On Sun, 9/6/09, Robin Bannister <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Robin Bannister <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: tieWaitForNote across staves
> To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <address@hidden>, "lilypond-user" <address@hidden>
> Date: Sunday, September 6, 2009, 6:28 PM
> Jonathan Wilkes wrote:  
> > I tried fooling around with tieWaitForNote  
> 
> You didn't show your code, so it's not easy to guess what
> you tried.  
> I have no cross-staff experience, but it looks to me like
> the cross-staff run is a lot better supported than the
> cross-staff chord (where you have to choose a stem length).
> 
> At any rate, it seems from NR 2.2.1 that the beamed run
> should be in just one voice but the chord should be in two
> voices. This is incompatible with ties.  
> So I assume you have to fool around with hidden notes to
> give tieWaitForNote a start in both chord voices. See
> hidden.ly for two ways of doing this.  

Oops, I guess it's much more helpful to show the code.  I'll have a 
look at hidden.ly and see if I can get it to work.

Thanks,

-Jonathan

> 
> Cheers,
> Robin