JN: "A stem is considered to be in forced direction, in every case
when it happens to point in an unnatural direction (eg, all upward
stems of notes that are above central staff line)."
I wish Roush & Gourlay had played more polyphonic music!! When you
have two parts on one staff, stemup for upper and stemdown for lower
is _normal_, not forced - forced is when you have three parts on one
staff, and the middle one has to be shortened to squeeze in. The more
I see of their algorithms, the less I like them for keyboard music...
In params.ly,
forced_stem_shorten1 = \forced_stem_shorten0;
forced_stem_shorten2 = \forced_stem_shorten1;
forced_stem_shorten3 = \forced_stem_shorten2;
So, if I set
forced_stem_shorten0 = 0.0;
in \paper, can that be counted on to get all the others, or do I have
to set them each to 0.0?
John
