Re: change staff produces long stems

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On Apr 22, 2011, at 6:47 AM, Graham Percival wrote:

> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1612
> 
> My reading of the situation is this:
> 1. we should turn off beam collisions for cross-staff stems
> 2. we should document that such beam collisions are turned off, as:
>   - a @knownissue in the cross-staff stem node
>   - in the changes.tely
> 3. the existing @knownissues patch is appreciated, but will therefore
> no longer be valid
> 
> 
> My impression is that #1 would be a 10-line patch or less.  Am I
> missing something?  Can somebody make a patch for #1?
> 
> Once that's in, I'll get #2 done in a few minutes, and this issue can be 
> closed.

I have a bit of time today - let me try to come up with something that allows 
users to keep collision avoidance, and if it doesn't pan out, I'll create a 
patch to turn it off.

Cheers,
MS