Re: Increasing the gap between beams

[Elliot Isaacson]

Thanks for looking into this for me. Reverting the thickness back a little is 
not a such a big deal. I appreciate you help.

Thanks,
Elliot


--- On Tue, 9/2/08, Trevor Daniels <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Trevor Daniels <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Increasing the gap between beams
> To: address@hidden, "Elliot Isaacson" <address@hidden>
> Date: Tuesday, September 2, 2008, 4:24 AM
> Elliot
> 
> I believe the following is true, but it doesn't really
> help you much.  If 
> anyone knows better, please correct me.
> 
> AFAICS the gap property of Beam is no longer used.  The
> positioning of beams 
> is automatically determined to give positions related to
> the staff lines in 
> a process called "quanting".  If you look at any
> LilyPond score you will see 
> that the beams' starting and ending points are
> positioned so they either 
> just touch or are centered over a staff/ledger line, or are
> centered in a 
> staff space.  This avoids tiny gaps between beams and staff
> lines which 
> would look ugly, especially on horizontal beams.  The
> process is a complex 
> weighting algorithm, so I doubt if there is an easy
> solution for your 
> thicker beams.  The algorithm seems to give poor results
> for beam 
> thicknesses greater than about 0.6.
> 
> Trevor
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Elliot Isaacson"
> <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 6:16 AM
> Subject: Increasing the gap between beams
> 
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am just discovering lilypond. It is amazing.
> >
> > I am typesetting a score and I wanted to increase the
> thickness of the 
> > notation
> > to give it an "inkier" look.
> >
> > \override Beam #'thickness = #.68
> > \override Stem #'thickness = #2
> > \override Stem #'length = #7.6
> > \override Stem #'details #'beamed-lengths
> = #'(3.8 4.2 4.6)
> > \set fontSize = #1
> >
> > These tweaks look great until lilypond starts to draw
> 16th notes. The two 
> > beams
> > are thick enough so that they absorb the space between
> them and look like 
> > one
> > thick single beam.
> >
> > My best guess was to change the Beam gap property, but
> his line has no 
> > effect in
> > 2.10.29 or 2.11.57:
> >
> > \override Beam #'gap = #any_number_here
> >
> > How can I override the distance between beams?
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Elliot
> >
> >
> >
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