the greatness of LilyPond

[Mark Polesky]

Did you know that LilyPond can draw cross-staff
kneed beams from one staff to another, even if
there's another staff in the way? Did you know
that if you blank out the staff that's in the
way, the beam centers itself perfectly where the
other staff would've been? Do you know how happy
I was when this worked EXACTLY as I wished on the
FIRST try? No \overrides, no VerticalAxisGroup
stuff... Awesome.

- Mark


\version "2.12.1"
\score {
  \new StaffGroup
  <<
  \new Staff = "A" { d''1 s d'' }
  \new Staff = "B" { b'1 \stopStaff s \startStaff b' }
  \new Staff = "C" \relative g' {
    g1 g8[ \change Staff = "A" b d b] \change Staff = "C" g2 g1
  }
  >>
}

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