On Nov 11, 2005, at 5:02 PM, William Spencer wrote:
Hi there: I'm back (briefly) after a long absence with probably a
pretty simple question. I can't figure out how to do this in my quite
elderly version (2Kc on a Mac): I have a series of sixteenth-note
triads in a piano part that alternate between hands, but I can't get
how to get the chords to alternate staves with the linking beam going
down the middle. The "cross-staff notes" and "reverse stems"
instructions in the help files seem to hover in the vicinity of what I
need but they don't seem to do it, or at least I can't figure out how
to get this to happen. Could someone please help me out? Thanks very
much in advance.
You are really close.
I imagine you entered all the notes in the LH staff, then dragged some
of them to the treble staff with Note Mover>Cross Staff? (don't forget
to hide the default whole rest in the treble staff, I do it by entering
a real whole rest and hitting O (letter O) to hide it in Speedy.)
The last thing is the beam angle tool in Special Tools. Drag the
right-hand handle on each group up to change the height to between the
staves, and the left handle to change the angle. The stems in the LH
part will be on the wrong sides of the noteheads, thus the Reverse
Stems tool is needed to correct it.
This could be a lot more clear in the help files, it is true.
Christopher
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