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From: | Trevor Daniels |
Subject: | Re: Increasing the gap between beams |
Date: | Tue, 2 Sep 2008 09:24:38 +0100 |
ElliotI believe the following is true, but it doesn't really help you much. If anyone knows better, please correct me.
AFAICS the gap property of Beam is no longer used. The positioning of beams is automatically determined to give positions related to the staff lines in a process called "quanting". If you look at any LilyPond score you will see that the beams' starting and ending points are positioned so they either just touch or are centered over a staff/ledger line, or are centered in a staff space. This avoids tiny gaps between beams and staff lines which would look ugly, especially on horizontal beams. The process is a complex weighting algorithm, so I doubt if there is an easy solution for your thicker beams. The algorithm seems to give poor results for beam thicknesses greater than about 0.6.
Trevor----- Original Message ----- From: "Elliot Isaacson" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 6:16 AM Subject: Increasing the gap between beams
Hello, I am just discovering lilypond. It is amazing.I am typesetting a score and I wanted to increase the thickness of the notationto give it an "inkier" look. \override Beam #'thickness = #.68 \override Stem #'thickness = #2 \override Stem #'length = #7.6 \override Stem #'details #'beamed-lengths = #'(3.8 4.2 4.6) \set fontSize = #1These tweaks look great until lilypond starts to draw 16th notes. The two beams are thick enough so that they absorb the space between them and look like onethick single beam.My best guess was to change the Beam gap property, but his line has no effect in2.10.29 or 2.11.57: \override Beam #'gap = #any_number_here How can I override the distance between beams? Thanks. Elliot _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list address@hidden http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
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