Re: Is a cross-staff chord with ties possible in lilypond?

[David Kastrup]

Francisco Vila <address@hidden> writes:

> 2011/4/26 Helge Hafting <address@hidden>:
>> 2. Cross-staff chords could get simpler too. Switch staff inside
>>   a chord, and lilypond would know to connect the stems.
>
> Cross-staff chords is one of the very first features I tried in
> lilypond and could not achieve.  I used to teach Finale and gave a
> Satie example as an exercise to my students; when I switched to
> lilypond I could not use the piece (first Gnossienne) any more, you
> can not ask for such a complicated exercise at the initial stages of
> learning, but it was fairly easy with the afore mentioned visual
> package.  The idea was: you select a special tool, choose a measure
> and a number of handles appear on noteheads. Then just drag and drop
> notes onto the desired staff.  In lilypond we have not a syntax for
> this but we do have one for simple cross staff voices, so I guess we
> have a small step done towards this. Remember, however, that a syntax
> is not by far all you need to have for a feature to work.
>
> I'd be delighted to sponsor the feature.  ¿A price?

Staff changes are currently done by music events IIRC, meaning that they
occur at a certain point of time.

With the current architecture of Lilypond, the most straightforward
approach at the moment would appear to specify cross-staff notes via
tweaks instead.

-- 
David Kastrup