Beam damping

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> [ Mac OS X 10.3.3 via Fink; Lilypond 2.1.35-1 ]
> 
> Hello!
> 
> Just wondering about Beam damping. The default setting allows beams 
> that are *far* too steep for my tastes:
> 
> 
> [I don't have a copy of Ross or any comparable text -- would they would 
> approve of a slope of 3.5 over 10?]
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't seem to have very fine control over the angle -- 
> I can only get undamped or horizontal!  =\
> 
> The code I am trying is:
>      \override Staff.Beam #'damping = #2
> 
> The docs have this to say:
> > damping (integer):
> > 1
> > Amount of beam slope damping. 0: no, 1: yes, 100000: horizontal beams.
> 
> Does that mean that 2 will give a different result (i.e., more damping) 
> than 200?
> What's the algorithm?

Basically,

        slope := 0.6 * tanh (slope) / damping;

but it is possible that the beam-quanting will obscure the result of
the damping. Nevertheless, it seems to do something over here.


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