Re: drum notation (horizontal beams)

[Trevor Bača]

On 10/2/06, David Johnston <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any functionality to notate horizontal beams? I'm notating drum music
> and the beams are typically drawn horizontally to avoid slanted beams becoming
> distracting.

Hi David,

Try overriding the 'positions attribute of the Beam grob with a
same-valued pair.

%%% FLAT BEAM EXAMPLE %%%

\version "2.9.18"

\new Staff {
       \override Beam #'positions = #'(4 . 4)
       c'8[ d'8 e'8 f'8]
       f'8[ e'8 d'8 c'8]
}

%%% END %%%


The Beam grob is documented here:

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/user/lilypond-internals/Beam.html#Beam

And the complete list of attributes in the beam-interface is found here:

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/user/lilypond-internals/beam_002dinterface.html#beam_002dinterface


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Trevor Bača
address@hidden

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