Re: feathered beams

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 11:16, Bryan, Chris wrote: 
> > Is it possible to do feathered beams in LY?  If so, how?
> 
> there is no native mechanism for this. i hacked it a while ago by making
> two simultaneous beamed note-groups, with the beams tilted opposite
> directions in each, and tweaked so the beam start-points were the same.
> lily's spacing algorithm was sufficiently reliable that i didn't have to
> worry about making one set of noteheads or stems disappear - they always
> coincided exactly.
> 
> that was back on 2.0.0, so things may have changed since then.

We'd love to have a small example of this, for our tips & tricks
document. Could you could code one up for us?

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