Re: Making space for markup with cross-staff beams

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
To: "LilyPond User Group" <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2013 12:29 PM
Subject: Making space for markup with cross-staff beams


> As something of an exercise, I'm setting the Vaughan Williams song "let
> beauty awake" in Lily.  It's got lots of staff crossing.  My current 
> problem
> is getting the stems and beams to avoid some markup.  The attached image
> illustrates the problem.  I know I could move all the staves apart more to
> provide some room, but I don't want to do that because it would mess up 
> all
> the other staves.  Is there a way of either just moving the piano staves 
> on
> this system a bit further apart, or alternatively, some other way of 
> making
> the cross staff furniture avoid the markup?


I made this work by placing a hidden note high above the stave for the left 
hand at the end of the system - this forces the left hand away from the 
right and gives space to fit the text in.  I've now finished this exercise. 
It's all been created in Noteworthy and uses my converter to make the 
LilyPond - no hand crafting of the .ly code is necessary - all the 
hand-crafting is done with text commands in Noteworthy.  I'm pleased with 
how it looks.

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Phil Holmes

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