beam across hidden staves of a grand staff
Priority
P2 - Medium
Type
Functional
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Status
active
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
Extra staffs are common in piano sheet music to separate voices when they become too complicated for a single staff (among other things). These staves are voice staves of the same grand staff, and for the majority of the piece they are hidden (style -> general -> score -> "hide empty staves"). I would like to be able beam across hidden staves.
A simple workaround is to shift the notes onto the hidden staff (hiding the previously visible staff) so that cross-staff beaming works again, since there is no intervening hidden staff. Unfortunately, with too many voice staves (>= 6), the required clef changes are confusing and unnecessary.
Comments
Example: IMSLP: Leo Ornstein: 4th Piano Sonata - page 11 - [numbered page 9] - Tranquillo (last system to end) -> page 12 - [numbered page 10]
Ironically, the piece is easier to typeset with the workaround (clef change). This should probably be closed.
It' still a valid request, but good job figuring out the workaround :-)
FWIW, supposedly we really do supposed notes moved >1 staff up or down, at least we do internally. But I don't see a way to actually make this happen. If I save the file as MSCX and manually edit the "move" tag on the note, though, it does work.
I don't follow. If it works internally by editing the "move" tag, why not allow the "ctrl+shift" shortcut to move >1 staff?
I don't know. I see in the code we specifically detect and prevent this. The simple case I tested works, but it's certainly possible more complicated cases don't, and that might be why it was disabled.
Relates to #285233: [EPIC] Cross-staff notation issues