Re: Sponsored feature request--cross-staff chords, ties

2006-08-29 Thread Trevor Bača
On 8/29/06, Steve D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 06:22:44PM +0200, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > > Trevor Bača wrote: > >Yes, exactly. The notes can be separately articulated, with separate > >accidentals and so on. What the notes share will be spanning stems and > >a single bea

Re: Sponsored feature request--cross-staff chords, ties

2006-08-29 Thread Steve D
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 06:22:44PM +0200, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > > Trevor Bača wrote: > >Yes, exactly. The notes can be separately articulated, with separate > >accidentals and so on. What the notes share will be spanning stems and > >a single beam. > > OK. This is a completely different featu

Re: Sponsored feature request--cross-staff chords, ties

2006-08-28 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Trevor Bača wrote: Yes, exactly. The notes can be separately articulated, with separate accidentals and so on. What the notes share will be spanning stems and a single beam. OK. This is a completely different feature than what Steve is looking for. It's also quite a bit easier, I suspect. -

Re: Sponsored feature request--cross-staff chords, ties

2006-08-28 Thread Trevor Bača
On 8/28/06, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Trevor Bača wrote: > QUESTION: will the proposed cross-staff implementation path enable > cross-staff stemming and beaming between *nonadjacent* staves (eg, 1st > violins and basses, passing over the 2nd violins, violas and cellos)? on 2nd

Re: Sponsored feature request--cross-staff chords, ties

2006-08-28 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Trevor Bača wrote: QUESTION: will the proposed cross-staff implementation path enable cross-staff stemming and beaming between *nonadjacent* staves (eg, 1st violins and basses, passing over the 2nd violins, violas and cellos)? on 2nd thought, isn't this completely different from x-staff stemmin

Re: Sponsored feature request--cross-staff chords, ties

2006-08-24 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Trevor Bača wrote: > Well, if Steve or Vivian or Hans or somebody is willing to help out, > then I'm willing to pitch in on the sponsoring too. > > I'm about to have cross-staff stuff all over some piano music and also > between different *string* staves as well. So a question. > > QUESTION: will

Re: Sponsored feature request--cross-staff chords, ties

2006-08-23 Thread Trevor Bača
On 8/23/06, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Trevor Bača wrote: > On 8/22/06, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I once made an estimate for doing x-staff chords, for 400 EUR. I think >> that would be the most difficult task. If the stems + noteheads work >

Re: Sponsored feature request--cross-staff chords, ties

2006-08-23 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Trevor Bača wrote: On 8/22/06, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I once made an estimate for doing x-staff chords, for 400 EUR. I think that would be the most difficult task. If the stems + noteheads work correctly, adding arpeggios and ties should be relatively easy. For re

Re: Sponsored feature request--cross-staff chords, ties

2006-08-23 Thread Steve D
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 10:29:49PM -0500, Trevor Bača wrote: > On 8/22/06, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hello, > >I once made an estimate for doing x-staff chords, for 400 EUR. I think > >that would be the most difficult task. If the stems + noteheads work > >correctly, adding a

Re: Sponsored feature request--cross-staff chords, ties

2006-08-22 Thread Trevor Bača
On 8/22/06, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I once made an estimate for doing x-staff chords, for 400 EUR. I think that would be the most difficult task. If the stems + noteheads work correctly, adding arpeggios and ties should be relatively easy. For reference, I insert wh

Re: Sponsored feature request--cross-staff chords, ties

2006-08-22 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Hello, I once made an estimate for doing x-staff chords, for 400 EUR. I think that would be the most difficult task. If the stems + noteheads work correctly, adding arpeggios and ties should be relatively easy. For reference, I insert what I wrote to Hans Forbrich: ** Hello Hans, I've had

Re: Sponsored feature request--cross-staff chords, ties

2006-08-20 Thread Vivian Barty-Taylor
I have in the past got Lilypond to do what you describe. The cross-staff chords are documented in the manual, although I agree the mechanism for achieving this is a bit clumsy (extending the stem from one of the chords.) I could imagine that to allow something like your example () could be a bit of

Sponsored feature request--cross-staff chords, ties

2006-08-20 Thread Steve D
I know that cross-staff beaming has been mentioned periodically on the LilyPond lists. It would be great, for the sake of piano and other polyphonic instrument scores, for there to exist in LilyPond some mechanism that would allow for chords to change staff, perhaps like single-note melodies alrea