Hi Arle, > That did indeed help. It got me 90% of the way there. When I actually applied > it in the piece I’m setting, I found that the length of the overridden stem > was pushing the other staff away. It didn’t do this in the example you made, > so I’m not sure what was interfering
You could always remove it from the spacing engine’s calculations: \version "2.19.83" ignoreH = \propertyTweak horizontal-skylines ##f \propertyTweak extra-spacing-width #empty-interval \etc ignoreV = \propertyTweak vertical-skylines ##f \propertyTweak extra-spacing-height #empty-interval \etc ignore = \ignoreH \ignoreV \etc { \new PianoStaff << \new Staff { bes'8[ <ces'' e''>] } \new Staff { \clef bass \voiceOne \autoBeamOff \crossStaff { \once \ignore Stem \tweak NoteColumn.X-offset #-1.175 \tweak Stem.length 7 bes8 s } \autoBeamOn } >> } Hope that helps more! Kieren. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer (he/him/his) ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info