Re: tremolo implementation

[Mats Bengtsson]

> On Mon, 04 Nov 2002 21:02:50 -0500
> Michal Seta <address@hidden> wrote:
> > \score {
> >   \notes\relative c' {
> >     \time 3/4
> >   \repeat tremolo 8 {c16 e}
> >     % if my understanding is correct trmolo 8 means 3 beams.
> >     % 4 = 2beams, however, I noticed that the value of the note seems to be 
> > growing? how do I come up with the proper values?
> >     % c16 makes it a half note
> >     % d32 quarter ? and so on?
> 
> "tremolo 8" means "repeat it 8 times".
>       \repeat tremolo 6 {c16 e}
> should do the trick.

Normally, a tremolo is typeset with three beams, so you rather want
\repeat tremolo 12 {c32 e}

> (although now you run into a bug; see 
> http://lilypond.org/stable/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Tremolo-repeats.html
> )

No, this bug has was fixed in version 1.6.1 (except for the 
documentation).

However, there's another bug, namely that all note heads 
correspond to half the duration of the tremolo, not to the 
full duration of the tremolo, as it should This is exactly 
the problem that Michal observed in his second email. 
I'm fairly convinced that this worked correctly in version 
1.6.1 and I don't manage to track down where in the source 
code it should be fixed.

    /Mats