Re: feathered beams

[Peter Lutek]

On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 17:40, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> 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?

see attached ly.
-p

feathered-beam.ly
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