Re: cross-staff stems in a piano part

[David Wright]

On Sat 09 Dec 2017 at 21:58:58 (-0500), Chris Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 08:29:54PM EST, Andrew Bernard wrote:
> > Hi Chris,
> 
> > Just look up the syntax for 'cross staff stems' in the NR. It's pretty
> > simple.
> 
> > I don't know much about 2.18.2, but I imagine that feature is there.
> > By the way, have you considered upgrading to 2.19.80? It's very stable
> > and the 19 series have so many good features it seems a pity to
> > languish in the past!
> 
> I'll take another look at the "cross staff stems" documentation.
> 
> As to upgrading lilypond I tend to stick with the version that is
> provided by my distribution (debian stable) unless I really need one
> particular new feature. 

Strictly speaking, Debian stable, currently stretch, doesn't
contain lilypond because it depends on guile-1.8-libs which
stretch doesn't support.

There's no need to disturb the LP installation you already have;
you can use the up-to-date version merely by downloading it, then

$ cd ~
$ bash .../lilypond-2.19.80-1.linux-x86.sh --prefix lilypond-2.19.80-1
$ ~/lilypond-2.19.80-1/bin/lilypond your-source-file.ly

If you like it, you could

$ alias lily='~/lilypond-2.19.80-1/bin/lilypond'

and then

$ lily your-source-file.ly

(... is the path to wherever your downloads go.)

Cheers,
David.