Re: Reducing the length of a broken beam/beamlet/beam fragment?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Marcus Macauley schreef:
> The partial beams that you get with, e.g., a dotted rhythm: Is it 
> possible to reduce the length of such beamlets?
>
> I think Lilypond's default minimum length is a bit too long, especially 
> for tightly-spaced music, but I haven't been able to find a way to 
> change it.

I'm too busy to fix this, but you could add a property.

See beam.cc, where it says

                      Real notehead_width =
                        Stem::duration_log (segs[j].stem_) == 1
                        ? 1.98
                        : 1.32; // URG.


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