Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 103, Issue 98

[James Harkins]

> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:17:44 +0200
> From: Janek Warcho? <address@hidden>
> > or two slashes on a?stemmed 8th note, not a fan.
> > These appear to be the same thickness as a beam,
> > and worse of all, are completely horizontal.
> 
> That's because rolls are treated as tremolos,
> and slashes in tremolos are typeset parallell to the beam.
> I'm not experienced in drum notation,
> but maybe this means they should be horizontal?

Neither is standard for drum rolls. As far as I know, the tremolo angle should 
be the same as for a non-beamed note (even if it disagrees with with the beam 
angle).

James


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