Re: Hiding first stem in group hides beam

[David Kastrup]

Torbjörn Björkman <address@hidden> writes:

> 2014-09-14 18:34 GMT+03:00 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
>> TorbjörnBjörkman <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > I try to hide the first stem in a beam group and expect this to keep the
>> > beam, just as happens if you hide any other stem in the group. However, the
>> > whole beam goes away.
>> >
>> > I run lilypond version 2.18.2 on a Mac.
>> >
>> > Code snippet that demonstrates the issue follows. The first two beam groups
>> > show the expected behaviour and the last fails. This seems to be a bug.
>> >
>> > \score{
>> >   \new Staff
>> >   \relative c' {
>> >     \cadenzaOn
>> >     c8[ e \once \hide Stem f]
>> >     c[ \once \hide Stem e f]
>> >     \once \hide Stem c[ e f]
>> >   }
>> > }
>>
>> That's the intended consequence of issue 2866
>> <URL:https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2866>.
>
> OK. Does this mean that there is currently no way of hiding the first stem
> while keeping the beam?

Of course not, that's just the default.  If you use

\new Staff \with { \override Beam.transparent = ##f } { ...

then the transparency of stems will not bleed over to the beam.

-- 
David Kastrup