Re: Unusual beaming for piano music

[Kim Shrier]

> On Mar 23, 2017, at 7:26 PM, Jeffery Shivers <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 9:13 PM, Andrew Bernard
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I have an unusual beaming situation in the piano work I am setting. The 
>> composer I work with is fussy (very) about his visual gestures in notation 
>> and it is incumbent on me to reproduce the beaming seen in the attached 
>> image. The issue I am having difficulty with is where the beam for the 
>> spanned group goes from up to down with no break – at the point where the 
>> “treble^8” clef is introduced. Are there any smart solutions to such a 
>> situation?
>> 
>> I can ask to have this notated differently, but it would go against various 
>> large scale structural patterns in the music. [Yes, we know it does not 
>> follow engraving rules ]  So a technical lilypond solution would be great.
> 
> I would start to guess something like.. just faking it with
> simultaneous overlapping beams. But I've given up in the past on doing
> this exact thing more than once. I can't recall ever spending the time
> to work it out. Are the beams for the subdivisions (beyond quavers)
> always at least on one side or the other - and never both?
> 
In the notation reference about beaming, 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/beams.en.html#manual-beams 
, it looks like you can achieve what you want by using manual beaming along 
with \set stemLeftBeamCount and \set stemRightBeamCount .

Kim