Re: slope-limit

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Rune Zedeler <address@hidden> writes:

> > Yes it does, but the name is misleading.  Look at the documentation
> > for slope-limit, or at beam.cc
> 
> Does it? Would you please give an example ehre setting slope-limit did
> have an affect?
> Personally, I don't understand why this example do not produce (any!)
> horizontal beams

No, of course not.  To get horizontal beams, you must set Beam
#'height, see example at

    
http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Beaming.html

Slope limit is for correcting steep slopes that run against some of
the note's slopes.  As I said, the name is misleading; should be
fixed.

Experiment with input/regression/beam-extreme.ly and slope-limit to
see how it works (that's: not very well, this is difficult).


> \score{
>   \notes\transpose c''{
>      \property Staff.Beam \override #'auto-knee-gap = ##f
>      \property Staff.Beam \override #'slope-limit = #0
>      \stemUp   a,8 a, a, c'' c'' a, a, a, [g d'] [d' g]
>      \stemDown a,8 c'' c'' c'' c'' c'' c'' a, [g d'] [d' g]
>   }
> }

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