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The \startTextSpan and \stopTextSpan commands allow the creation of text spanners as easily as pedal indications or octavations. Override some properties of the TextSpanner object to modify its output.

By default, the arpeggioBracket shortcut only works at a Voice level. As a consequence, if you need to print cross-staff arpeggios, it will not work (as demonstrated in the first measure of this example); here is a way to make it work (demonstrated in the second measure).

Sometimes it is better to use stems from the upper staff for creating cross-staff chords, because no problems with automatic beam collision avoidance then arise. If the stems from the lower staff were used in the following example, it would be necessary to change the automatic beam collision avoidance settings so that it doesn't detect collisions between staves using \override Staff.Beam.collision-voice-only = ##t

This snippet shows how to use Span_stem_engraver and \crossStaff to connect stems across staves automatically.

The stem length need not be specified, as the variable distance between noteheads and staves is calculated automatically. However, it is important that \crossStaff is applied to the correct voice or staff (i.e., on the opposite side of where a beam is or would be positioned) to get the desired effect.

Since \repeat tremolo expects exactly two musical arguments for chord tremolos, the note or chord which changes staff within a cross-staff tremolo should be placed inside curly braces together with its \change Staff command.

This snippet demonstrates how to create various types of staves where their lines actually cross other staves.

Making a cue containing lyrics. This is just a combination of solutions from the Notation Reference.

Curly bracket (or flat brace).

Curly end barline supports svg output.

Markup function to draw a curved arrow with variable dimension.

Syntax is \curvedArrow #'length #'height #'X-strait_length.