Re: cross-staff stems in a piano part

[David Kastrup]

David Wright <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

They just include the guile-1.8-libs internally to LilyPond and replace
the LilyPond executable with a shell wrapper pointing LDPATH to them.

-- 
David Kastrup