Piano staves are two normal staves coupled with a brace. The staves are largely independent, but sometimes voices can cross between the two staves. The same notation is also used for harps and other key instruments. The PianoStaff is especially built to handle this cross-staffing behavior. In this section we discuss the PianoStaff and some other pianistic peculiarities.
There is no support for putting chords across staves. You can get
this result by increasing the length of the stem in the lower stave so
it reaches the stem in the upper stave, or vice versa. An example is
included with the distribution as input/test/stem-cross-staff.ly
.
Dynamics are not centered, but kludges do exist. See
input/template/piano-dynamics.ly
.
This page is for LilyPond-2.0.1 (stable-branch).