Re: stem length with beaming?

[D Josiah Boothby]

thank you! #'(20) turns out (as you probably guessed) to be quite 
extreme, but the effect has been acheived.

thanks again,

josiah

Erik Sandberg wrote:

> Thanks, added this bug to CVS as tremolo-stem-length-beamed.ly. The stems 
> should automatically be long enough.
>
> The workaround you are looking for, is probably
>    \override Stem #'beamed-lengths = #'(20)
> The value of beamed-length is a list, so you could also do something like
> #'(5 6 7)
> to get different stem lengths for different beam multiplicities.
>
> Erik
>
> On Wednesday 19 January 2005 07.22, D Josiah Boothby wrote:
>  
>
> > I'm trying to make a few beams longer than they normally would be
> > because I'm adding tremolo and the tremolo overlaps with the beam. Am I
> > misusing \override?
> >
> > \version "2.4.2"
> >
> > Notes = \relative c''' {
> >    \time 6/8
> >    \override Stem #'beamed-lengths = #20
> >    a,!8:128\mf^\markup{ \large\bold{Un peu lent} (\small{\note #"8"
> > #0.9 } = 66) }
> >    bes,!:128 as':128 g,!:128 cis:128 r
> >    \revert Stem #'beamed-lengths
> > }
> >
> > \score {
> >    \transpose f c' \Notes
> >
> >    \layout { raggedright = ##t }
> > }
> >