On Tuesday 21 June 2005 06:59 pm, Henrik Frisk wrote: > Daniel Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > henrikfr wrote: > > > > >I posted a question a while ago but didn't get any feedback, probably because nobody understood my question ;)... I'll give it another try: > > > > > >I want to extend a beamed stem so that it reaches beyond the beam, without changeing the position or angle of the beam. I want to do it for cross staff notes. I've figured out how to do it for unbeamed notes but can't seem to get it to work for beamed notes. > > > > > >Thanx for any suggestions.
You can't have a quarter and an eighth on the same stem. There are two ways of noting the quarter. Give it it's own note head and shift it to the left a bit, or put another stem on the same note head in the opposite direction. For keyboard music it is ok to have two note heads for the same note. (Not necessarily ok for strings) No matter how the stem be extended, it still takes its time value from the beam/beams attached to it. An "extended" stem is just that. It is not a quarter note stem. To have a quarter you need another stem, or a rest, will he nill he. There is a rule here. You can't have more than one time value note head on the same stem. Of course you can have more than one time value stem on the same note head, even different colors, but they have to be separate stems and therefore in opposite directions. So the problem is that if you get what you want, and you can, simply by putting the quarter in another voice, it won't indicate what you want it to indicate. Hope this helps. daveA -- The only technical exercises for all guitarists worth a lifetime of practice: "Dynamic Guitar Technique". Nothing else is close. Free download: http://www.openguitar.com/instruction.html daveA David Raleigh Arnold dra..at..openguitar.com _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
