Re: slope-limit

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Rune Zedeler <address@hidden> writes:

> I really don't understand, and I STILL cannot produce an example where
> setting slope-limit makes any difference.

> > Experiment with 
> > input/regression/beam-extreme.ly and slope-limit to
> > see how it works (that's: not very well, this is difficult).
> 
> The example doesn't mention slope-limit.
> If someone would please produce some slope-limit example where removing
> "slope-limit" would do something to the output.



\version "1.3.146"
\header{
texidoc="
Beams should behave reasonably well, even under extreme circumstances.
Stems may be short, but noteheads should never touch the beam.  Note that
under normal circumstances, these beams would get knees here
Beam.auto-knee-gap was set to false.
"
}

extreme = \notes\relative c'' {
  \stemBoth
  [g8 c c,]
  [c16 c'' a f]
  \stemUp 
  [c,,32 c'' a f]
  r4
}
\score {
  {
    % If we want to test extreme beams,
    % we should not have them auto-kneed
    \property Voice.Beam \override #'auto-knee-gap = ##f
    \extreme
    \property Voice.Beam \override #'slope-limit = #1000
    \extreme
  }
  \paper{
    linewidth=-1.
  }
}

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