Re: Tremolos between two whole notes

[Xavier Scheuer]

On 3 February 2012 17:00, Brent Annable <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have a question, and perhaps a suggestion. I just typeset the following
> tremolo between two whole notes:
>
> \score {
> \relative c'' {
>
> \repeat tremolo 16  { gis32 b }
>
> }
> }
>
> and was quite disappointed by the fact that Lilypond places the tremolo
> beams horizontally and above the notes in question. I much prefer the look
> of the first tremolo in this image:
>
> http://media.wiley.com/assets/25/94/0-7645-5105-1_1309.jpg
>
> with the beams tilted and occupying the space in-between the whole notes. I
> read through the manual and searched for some snippets, but couldn't find
> any reference to this tremolo style at all. Is there any relatively simple
> way of achieving this look that I'm missing? And if not, could a tremolo
> style option perhaps be added for those who prefer them this way?

You are not the first one to ask for this.
And IIRC there was quite a consensus on the fact that your suggestion
should actually be the default behaviour.

AFAICS this is tracked as issue #318
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=318
but as I said, there have been several discussions about this issue
(later than the initial report).  Maybe the last time this was discussed
was in a thread with Janek and his new tremolo styles?

Cheers,
Xavier

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Xavier Scheuer <address@hidden>