Francisco Vila <paconet....@gmail.com> writes: > 2011/4/26 Helge Hafting <helge.haft...@hist.no>: >> 2. Cross-staff chords could get simpler too. Switch staff inside >> a chord, and lilypond would know to connect the stems. > > Cross-staff chords is one of the very first features I tried in > lilypond and could not achieve. I used to teach Finale and gave a > Satie example as an exercise to my students; when I switched to > lilypond I could not use the piece (first Gnossienne) any more, you > can not ask for such a complicated exercise at the initial stages of > learning, but it was fairly easy with the afore mentioned visual > package. The idea was: you select a special tool, choose a measure > and a number of handles appear on noteheads. Then just drag and drop > notes onto the desired staff. In lilypond we have not a syntax for > this but we do have one for simple cross staff voices, so I guess we > have a small step done towards this. Remember, however, that a syntax > is not by far all you need to have for a feature to work. > > I'd be delighted to sponsor the feature. ¿A price?
Staff changes are currently done by music events IIRC, meaning that they occur at a certain point of time. With the current architecture of Lilypond, the most straightforward approach at the moment would appear to specify cross-staff notes via tweaks instead. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
