Re: Redefine r? Horizontal beams? Grace without beam break?

[Mats Bengtsson]

Hugo Flordal wrote:
> Hi, I'm using Lilypond 2.10.25 and I have a few questions...
>
>   Is it possible to redefine the "rest note name" 'r' and instead use e.g. 'p'
> for rests. I'd really like to use 'r' for something else (right hand strokes in
> drumming).
>   
Unfortunately, the 'r' for rests (and 'R' for multimeasure rests and 's' 
for spacer notes)
are hard coded in the program.
>   Can you have _really_ horizontal beams (possibly always at the same hight)?
> The following line does not work, the beams are still leaning ever so 
> slightly...
> \override Beam #'damping = #10000000
>   
I hope you have searched the mailing list archives. See for example
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2006-10/msg00111.html
for one solution.
>   Another thing, how would I tweak the automatic beaming to have grace notes
> that do not "break beams"? For instance, I'd like the first code snippet to
> produce the same output as the second.
>
>   \stemDown
>   a8 \grace {c16[c]} a8
>
>   \stemDown
>   a8[ \grace {c16[c]} a8]
>
>   
As far as I know, that's not possible. The reason is the explicit beam 
within the
grace notes.

  /Mats