Re: Cross staff beams

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On Jan 13, 2012, at 10:11 PM, Alberto Simões wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I managed to get a cross-staff beam, kneed beam, I think, with this code, and 
> with the appearence in attach:
> 
> d8[ cis a \change Staff = "lower" \stemUp g] |
>  fis4 \change Staff = "upper"
> 
> To reduce stem collision I forced the stemUp there, and the voice in the 
> lower beam has a stemDown.
> 
> Although acceptable, the effect is not beautiful.
> 
> Is there any way to tweak it a little?
> 

You could try setting the damping and/or concaveness property of the beam to 
very high values - that'll flatten out the beam.

Cheers,
MS