Cross-staff chords – beaming problems workaround: Difference between revisions
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Sometimes it is better to use stems from the | Sometimes it is better to use stems from the ‘other’ staff for creating cross-staff chords to trick LilyPond's beam collision detector. In the following snippet, if the stems from the lower staff were used instead, it would be necessary to explicitly use | ||
\override Staff.Beam.collision-voice-only = ##t | |||
so that LilyPond doesn't move the beams. | |||
<lilypond version="2.24"> | <lilypond version="2.24"> | ||
\new PianoStaff << | \new PianoStaff << | ||
\new Staff = up | \new Staff = up \relative c' << | ||
{ r4 | |||
\override Stem.cross-staff = ##t | |||
\override Stem.length = #19 % this is in half-spaces, | |||
% so it makes stems 9.5 staffspaces long | |||
\override Stem.Y-offset = #-6 % stems are normally lengthened | |||
% upwards, so here we must lower the stem by the amount | |||
% equal to the lengthening - in this case (19 - 7) / 2 | |||
% (7 is default stem length) | |||
e e e } | |||
{ s4 | |||
\change Staff = "bottom" | |||
\override NoteColumn.ignore-collision = ##t | |||
c, c c | |||
} | } | ||
>> | |||
\new Staff = bottom \relative c' { | |||
\clef bass | |||
\voiceOne | |||
g8 a g a g a g a | |||
} | |||
>> | >> | ||
</lilypond> | </lilypond> | ||
[[Category:Chords]] | [[Category:Chords]] | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:Keyboards]] | ||
[[Category:Tweaks and overrides]] | [[Category:Tweaks and overrides]] | ||
[[Category:Workaround]] | [[Category:Workaround]] | ||
[[Category:Included in the official documentation]] | |||
[[Category:Snippet]] | |||
Latest revision as of 06:01, 14 December 2025
Sometimes it is better to use stems from the ‘other’ staff for creating cross-staff chords to trick LilyPond's beam collision detector. In the following snippet, if the stems from the lower staff were used instead, it would be necessary to explicitly use
\override Staff.Beam.collision-voice-only = ##t
so that LilyPond doesn't move the beams.
\version "2.24"
\new PianoStaff <<
\new Staff = up \relative c' <<
{ r4
\override Stem.cross-staff = ##t
\override Stem.length = #19 % this is in half-spaces,
% so it makes stems 9.5 staffspaces long
\override Stem.Y-offset = #-6 % stems are normally lengthened
% upwards, so here we must lower the stem by the amount
% equal to the lengthening - in this case (19 - 7) / 2
% (7 is default stem length)
e e e }
{ s4
\change Staff = "bottom"
\override NoteColumn.ignore-collision = ##t
c, c c
}
>>
\new Staff = bottom \relative c' {
\clef bass
\voiceOne
g8 a g a g a g a
}
>>