> On Mar 23, 2017, at 7:26 PM, Jeffery Shivers <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 9:13 PM, Andrew Bernard > <[email protected]> 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 .
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