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Re: Space between beams?
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Thomas Morley |
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Re: Space between beams? |
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Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:09:21 +0100 |
2014-02-23 7:26 GMT+01:00 Javier Ruiz-Alma <address@hidden>:
> Referring to this 10-yr-old inquiry, I'm working on the exact same bar Alex
> typeset:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2004-02/msg00086.html
>
> NR led me to overriding the beam font-size to cause the 16th beam to engrave
> thinner and with smaller gap between them (as graces do). Beam, although
> documented to support the font-size interface, doesn't seem to be affected
> by overrides to this property:
>
> \version "2.18.0"
> \relative c' {
> %normal notes & beams
> d16 e f g
>
> %smaller note heads work
> \override NoteHead.font-size = #-4
> d e f g
> \revert NoteHead.font-size
>
> % smaller beam command
> % doesn't seem to make any difference
> \override Beam.font-size = #-4
> d e f g
> \revert Beam.font-size
>
> %print graces for reference
> \grace { d e f g }
>
> %back to normal
> d e f g
> }
>
> Any ideas of how to scale beams down?
>
> Javier Ruiz
> address@hidden
>
Hi Javier,
try:
\version "2.18.0"
\relative c' {
\once \override Beam.beam-thickness = #0.2
\once \override Beam.length-fraction = #0.3
%% Uncomment if wanted/needed:
%\once \override Beam.positions = #'(-1 . 0.4)
d16 e f g
}
HTH,
Harm