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From: | Han-Wen Nienhuys |
Subject: | Re: Sponsored feature request--cross-staff chords, ties |
Date: | Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:45:01 +0200 |
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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 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)? This is fraught with cyclic dependencies. It might be possible, but you have to have some restrictions, eg. * the distances between these staves have been fixed in advance.Fixed staff distance is perfectly good for me because of my way of working. In every score the first thing I do is turn on proportional notation to regularize horizontal spacing regular and the second thing is to fix staff distances to do the same thing for vertical spacing. So would that particular restriction (ie, that you only get "nonadjacent stemming" or "nonadjacent beaming" or whatever we wind up calling this sorta thing with fixed staff distances) cause a problem for anyone else?
I think it should work. Note that if you have x-staff beams with voices jumping non-adjacently, the beam in between may be painted over the skipped staff.
1. We already have the restriction with cross-staff beams in a PianoStaff so the restriction already exists in (at least part of) the model (and nobody seems to complain)
people do complain occasionally, because it's harder to get an efficient layout with the fixed distance.
-- Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen LilyPond Software Design -- Code for Music Notation http://www.lilypond-design.com
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