Re: Beginners questions - cross staff slurs.

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi B,

> 1) It took me almost like forever, to get the cross staff slurs to  
> render. I'm quite sure there must be an easier way to mark them up.  
> Any of you have an idea?

Other than making the code a little easier to read (using variables,  
etc.), I don't think so… see my attached solution (truncated).

> 3) Whenever I put in some markup for the "L.H" and "R.H" - the  
> slurs renders wrong.

Depends on where you put the markup, I suppose, and how you're  
controlling the Slur — in my solution, the markup does not affect the  
slurs.

> 4) The last ottava; is it possible discard the dashed lines and  
> just letting it show up as "8va"?

How about using
    \override OttavaBracket #'transparent = ##t
??

HTH!
Kieren.

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\version "2.11.57"

pfU = { \change Staff = "Staff_pfUpper" }
pfL = { \change Staff = "Staff_pfLower" }
slurFixA =
{
        \once \override Slur #'height-limit = #20
        \once \override Slur #'positions = #'(-14 . -2)
}
slurFixB =
{
        \once \override Slur #'height-limit = #20
        \once \override Slur #'positions = #'(-12 . 0)
}
yPadA = { \once \override TextScript #'padding = #4 }

global =
{
        \time 6/8 s8*6
}

musicRH = \relative
{
        r8. \pfL r \pfU r \pfL r   |
}

musicLH = \relative
{
        \override TextScript #'padding = #2
        \override TextScript #'self-alignment-X = #-0.5
        \clef bass
        \slurFixA e,,16[^( g_\markup { "L.H." } b]
                \pfU e[ \yPadA g_\markup { "R.H." } b])
                \slurFixB \pfL e,[( g b]
                \pfU e[ g b])   |
}

\score
{
        \new PianoStaff
        <<
                \new Staff = "Staff_pfUpper" << \global \musicRH >>
                \new Staff = "Staff_pfLower" << \global \musicLH >>
        >>
}