Re: beam slope

[Nick Payne]

On 25/02/12 16:28, Helge Kruse wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I already sent this inquiry yesterday. Unfortunately it didn't appear in the 
> list. Therefore I try it again. I hope this doesn't look like any kind of spam.
>
> Lilypond calculates a very nice slope for the beams. But it fails when I add a 
> staff change. What's wrong with my Lilypond code?
>
> How can I convince Lilypond to add a slope or tweak it by myself? I would like 
> to get a layout in the second measure with slopes similar to the first measure.

You can manually specify the positions of the beam ends with

\once \override Beam #'positions = #'(a . b)

where a and b are the position in staff units of the left- and 
right-hand ends of the beam, with 0 being the center line of the staff.

Nick