Re: Flat beams

[Mats Bengtsson]

Jim Sabatke wrote:
> Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
>
> > Jim Sabatke writes:
> >
> >
> > > Bagpipers are used to reading music with flat beams. The stems should
> > > be long, enough to not interfere with the clutter of grace notes.
> > >
> > > I've done a lot of web research on beams, and various kinds of
> > > "concaveness" seem to be something what I'm looking for.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure what value(s) to set, and how to set them.
> > >
> > > Can anyone help?
> >
> >
> >
> > Have a look at slope-limit (maybe damping)
> >
> > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.2/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond-internals/Beam.html#Beam 
> >
> >
> > (Documentation, program-reference, backend, layout objects (grobs), beam)
>
> I had found that document during my initial search for a solution, 
> however, I have no idea how to use the functions or set the variables.  
> I couldn't find any examples; I searched the web, mail lists and my 
> installed documents and examply ly files.
>
> For example:  How does one set "slope-limit"?
>
> Sorry for being such a newbie to this program.

Read the newly written chapter 4 of the manual for version 2.2.
If you still have questions after that, please ask again and
point out what is still unclear.

   /Mats

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