Re: Making space for markup with cross-staff beams

[Thomas Morley]

2013/6/8 Phil Holmes <address@hidden>:
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> Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2013 12:29 PM
> Subject: Making space for markup with cross-staff beams
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>> As something of an exercise, I'm setting the Vaughan Williams song "let
>> beauty awake" in Lily.  It's got lots of staff crossing.  My current
>> problem
>> is getting the stems and beams to avoid some markup.  The attached image
>> illustrates the problem.  I know I could move all the staves apart more to
>> provide some room, but I don't want to do that because it would mess up
>> all
>> the other staves.  Is there a way of either just moving the piano staves
>> on
>> this system a bit further apart, or alternatively, some other way of
>> making
>> the cross staff furniture avoid the markup?
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> I made this work by placing a hidden note high above the stave for the left
> hand at the end of the system - this forces the left hand away from the
> right and gives space to fit the text in.  I've now finished this exercise.
> It's all been created in Noteworthy and uses my converter to make the
> LilyPond - no hand crafting of the .ly code is necessary - all the
> hand-crafting is done with text commands in Noteworthy.  I'm pleased with
> how it looks.
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Hi Phil,

in measure 15, where the stem-direction changes, the stems are too close.
Why?
Is this caused by LilyPond or some of your settings/overrides ...?

-Harm