I am engraving a piece with a lot of beams crossing breaks. Most of the
time LilyPond does fine with these, but once in a while I'd like to adjust
the beam slope of the second part of the broken beam. Overriding beam
positions seems like a good fit here, but in my case it produces stems too
long
I'm not sure I can explain my question well, but here goes:
I'm transcribing a piece that has "mostly" English lyrics under the
staff. It shows two verses (\set stanza "1." and \set stanza "2.")
Between the two, occasionally, there is the phonetic pronunciation of
a non-English word or phrase, in
> I'm transcribing a piece that has "mostly" English lyrics under the
> staff. It shows two verses (\set stanza "1." and \set stanza "2.")
>
> Between the two, occasionally, there is the phonetic pronunciation of
> a non-English word or phrase, in italics. So at the beginning of the
> piece, the