> I'm trying to have some notes cross from the lower staff to the
> upper staff but want the beam to automatically center. In my
> example this is accomplished in measure 3 with much manual work. Is
> there a better way?
No, there isn't – in general, how shall LilyPond know which note
belongs to which staff? However, you can define shortcuts to reduce
typing, for example
```
U = \change Staff = "up"
D = \change Staff = "down"
{
...
r8 a \U c \D a \U d ...
}
```
[Of course, our Scheme wizards may produce a solution to automatically
split notes between the upper and lower staff depending on a pitch
threshold; this might be nice for simple cases.]
Werner
