On Oct 21, 2011, at 6:15 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > > commit 1d9a73b13ee576d28c0f41f5b243f2ebb1ff9fcf > Author: Mike Solomon <[email protected]> > Date: Fri Oct 21 09:03:43 2011 +0200 > > Implements consistent beam slopes across line breaks. > > says > > To turn on this feature, use \override Beam #'consistent-slope = ##t. > > I think that is a mistake: unbroken beams naturally have consistent > slope. So when breaking a beam across lines, Lilypond already gets to > play with stem lengths to make the broken output strictly better than > the unbroken output was. > > The best output might conceivingly be achieved by very slightly relaxing > slope consistency. As long as we have no button for that, not relaxing > it is a much saner visual choice than totally discarding it. > > I would not even offer a settable property for this as long as the only > options are on and off. >
Compile beam-feather-breaking.ly in input/regression with and without this property - I think that the visual output changes enough to merit the on/off existing in LilyPond, no? Cheers, MS _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
