<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <!-- header_tag --> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>Cross-staff stems - GNU LilyPond Notation Reference</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="description" content="GNU LilyPond Notation Reference"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.11"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="Common-notation-for-keyboards.html#Common-notation-for-keyboards" title="Common notation for keyboards"> <link rel="prev" href="Staff_002dchange-lines.html#Staff_002dchange-lines" title="Staff-change lines"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- Copyright (C) 1999--2007 by the authors Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections. 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In order to do this, the <code>PianoStaff</code> must be set to accept cross-staff arpeggios and the arpeggios must be set to the bracket shape in the <code>PianoStaff</code> context. <p>(Debussy, Les collines d’Anacapri, m. 65) <blockquote> <pre class="verbatim"> \paper { ragged-right = ##t } \new PianoStaff << \set PianoStaff.connectArpeggios = ##t \override PianoStaff.Arpeggio #'stencil = #ly:arpeggio::brew-chord-bracket \new Staff { \relative c' { \key b \major \time 6/8 b8-.(\arpeggio fis'-.\> cis-. e-. gis-. b-.)\!\fermata^\laissezVibrer \bar "||" } } \new Staff { \relative c' { \clef bass \key b \major << { <a e cis>2.\arpeggio } \\ { <a, e a,>2. } >> } } >> </pre> <p> <a href="../30/lily-128118d5.ly"> <img align="middle" border="0" src="../30/lily-128118d5.png" alt="[image of music]"> </a> </p> </blockquote> <p class="noindent"> <h5 class="subsubheading">See also</h5> <p class="indent"> <p>Snippets: <a href="../../../input/lsr/lilypond-snippets/Keyboards.html#Keyboards">Keyboards</a>. <p>Internals Reference: <a name="index-Stem-2011"></a><a href="../lilypond-internals/Stem.html#Stem">Stem</a>. <!-- footer_tag --><br><hr> <div class="node"> <p> <a name="Cross_002dstaff-stems"></a> Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Staff_002dchange-lines.html#Staff_002dchange-lines">Staff-change lines</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Common-notation-for-keyboards.html#Common-notation-for-keyboards">Common notation for keyboards</a> </div> <div style="background-color: #e8ffe8; padding: 2; border: #c0ffc0 1px solid;"> <p> <font size="-1"> This page is for LilyPond-2.11.57 (development-branch). <br> <address> Report errors to <a href="http://post.gmane.org/post.php?group=gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.bugs">http://post.gmane.org/post.php?group=gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.bugs</a>. </address> <br> Your <a href="http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/documentation-adding">suggestions for the documentation</a> are welcome. </font> </p> </div> <P> Other languages: <a href="Cross_002dstaff-stems.fr.html">français</a>, <a href="Cross_002dstaff-stems.es.html">español</a>, <a href="Cross_002dstaff-stems.de.html">deutsch</a>. <BR> </P> </BODY></html>