Thanks William, that's very useful. and thanks to everyone who has helped out tonight. The lilypond community is truly a great advert for our species.
-- Graham > On 17 Jan 2023, at 21:27, William Rehwinkel <will...@williamrehwinkel.net> > wrote: > > Dear Graham, > > This can actually be solved with layers. You can configure which glyphs will > be drawn after each other, so that the whiteout does not infringe on them. > You could do a little bit like the following: > > -William > > \version "2.24.0" > > \new PianoStaff << > \new Staff \with { > } { s1 s1 } > \new Staff \with { > } { r4 r4 r4 r8 c''8^[ c''8] c8^[ c'] } > >> > > \layout { > \context { > \Staff > \omit BarLine > \override Beam.whiteout-style = #'outline > \override Beam.whiteout = #2 > \override Beam.layer = #-1 > %\override Stem.layer = #2 > } > \context { > \Score > \override SpanBar.layer = #-2 > } > } > > >> On 1/17/23 16:08, Graham King wrote: >>> On 2023-01-17 20:52, Graham King wrote: >>> On 2023-01-17 20:06, Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>>>>> As a secondary question: Is there a straightforward way to avoid >>>>>>> collisions of mensurstriche with beams? >>>>>> >>>>>> Do you have an example? >>>>> Here's an extract from the de Wert, that illustrates the "problem" >>>>> (lilypond 2.25.0): >>>> >>>> The way I see it, this would be a case for just accepting the crossing >>>> and maybe making it look nice using whiteout. >>>> >>>> Lukas >>> >>> Thanks Lukas, >>> >>> \once \override Beam.whiteout-style = #'outline >>> \once \override Beam.whiteout = #2 >>> >>> works for me. And I'm celebrating my first successful foray into the >>> Internals Reference :) >> Ah well, I got happy too quickly. This override causes the stems to >> separate from the beams. >> And it interferes with some staff-lines. >> Never mind; I'll live with the collisions. > > -- > + ---------------------------------------------- + > | William Rehwinkel - Oberlin College and | > | Conservatory '24 | > | will...@williamrehwinkel.net | > | PGP key: | > | https://williamrehwinkel.net/static/pubkey.txt | > + ---------------------------------------------- +