Re: Tremolo + non-tremolo in same beamed group

[James Harkins]

At Wed, 02 May 2012 17:59:19 -0400,
address@hidden wrote:
> > Bug or feature?
> > [...]
> > I'd expect the beam to be flat horizontal here.
> 
> I'd call it a design choice.  The tremolos need longer stems, and
> then LilyPond weighs the relative importance of keeping the other
> stems in the beam at normal length, versus making the beam parallel
> to line between first and last note heads.
> 
> \relative c' {e8:32 e:32 e e a a e e a a e:32 e:32 }

Okay, I understand. Two notes on the same staff line or space, beamed together, 
where one is a tremolo and the other is not is a fairly specific special case :)

> > (I know I can tweak the beam, just think I shouldn't have to.)
> 
> There's lots of parameters controlling beam-setting in general;
> maybe some adjustments would be an improvement overall.

I had a look at the internals reference, but couldn't make heads or tails of 
it. Tweaking the parameters that penalize this or that depends on a lot of 
background information on the beaming algorithms... I guess.

Would appreciate some pointers to make sense of those properties -- thanks in 
advance,
James


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