Beam damping - again

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Back to the subject discussed couple of months ago in message
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2004-03/msg00767.html
> 
>  > Basically,
>  > slope := 0.6 * tanh (slope) / damping;
> 
> The LilyPond program-reference says that the damping-value must be an 
> integer, but are there any (mathematical) reasons for that? I, too, find 
> the default value (1) to be too steep, but value 2 gives too flat 
> results - I think something between 1.3 and 1.5 would give just the 
> right slope.

no, does probably not have to integer. You can change this by changing
teh definition for damping from ,integer? into ,number? in
scm/define-grob-properties.scm


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