Re: drum notation (horizontal beams)

[Mats Bengtsson]

See also
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-10/msg00003.html

 /Mats

Trevor Bača wrote:

> 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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