Re: Concave beams (was: free LilyPond advertising)

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

2008/2/24, Rune Zedeler <address@hidden>:
> Han-Wen Nienhuys skrev:
>  > This is pretty obvious for single-voice notes; for chords it gets
>  > hairier: which part of the chord notes do we use to decide this?
>
>  I think we should look at both top notes and bottom notes. We should
>  only make the beam horizontal if they agree that the pattern is concave.
>  (I.e. form a pattern of the top notes. Form another pattern of the
>  bottom notes. If both patterns are concave then make the beam horizontal)
>
>  If we have something like { \stemUp c d <e g> f } Then we do not want a
>  horizontal beam.

Hmm .. I'm not sure. I've put the 'look at upper note' in Git since it
concords with the data we have, but the real problem is that we're
short of data.  I've created a test file beam-concave-chord.ly, to add
future test cases, to document any decisions we make.

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