Cross staff and beaming

[Andrew Bernard]

This is a question about cross staff stems and beaming. Referring to the attached example, can this be done by any means in lilypond? Am I missing something obvious?

 

Is there perhaps any way to have beams from the bass and from the treble be made to coincide so as to get something like this, as a sort of fake out? Lilypond of course does its level best to avoid beams from the staves colliding. I am wondering if there is any way to override this behaviour, of course normally desirable, but here it would be useful.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Andrew

 

 

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