Re: Making space for markup with cross-staff beams

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Morley" <address@hidden>
To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
Cc: "LilyPond User Group" <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2013 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: Making space for markup with cross-staff beams


> 2013/6/8 Phil Holmes <address@hidden>:
> > ----- Original Message ----- 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.
> >
> > --
> > Phil Holmes
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> Hi Phil,
>
> in measure 15, where the stem-direction changes, the stems are too close.
> Why?
> Is this caused by LilyPond or some of your settings/overrides ...?
>
> -Harm

Good point.  As far as I can see, it's nothing to do with hidden notes or 
markup overrides - I've tried deleting them with no effect.  Hmm.

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Phil Holmes