Re: Beaming over a rest before a subdivision

[Urs Liska]

Am 12.01.2016 um 19:57 schrieb Kieren MacMillan:
> Hi Urs,
>
>> Ah well, producing stemlets is the responsibility of user input code.
> Indeed.  =)
> I have some syntactic sugar for just such efforts.
>
>> Find attached a solution *with* stemlets (\override 
>> Staff.Stem.stemlet-length = 1)
> From the standpoint of clarity [of beat division/subdivision], this is 100% 
> clear.

That's right, and I think it's good that already now it's completely up
to the user to choose the rendering.

>
> However, it may not be the most elegant *looking* solution… In particular, 
> when there are that many beams, and the rests get pushed “out from under the 
> umbrella”, it’s a little disconcerting. See what it looks like if you 
> lengthen the stems, allowing the rests to at least poke their heads up below 
> the “baseline”.

See attachment.
I think in the context of my patch this is irrelevant, as this is
something the user can tweak in the input domain.
However, I think this *might* be something to consider as a separate
feature request.

Urs

>
> Best,
> Kieren.
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