On Sunday, 9 January 2000, John Sankey writes:
> HN: "\property Voice.beamVerticalPosition = #10; \property
> Voice.beamSlope = #10; Would this satisfy most of your first need?"
>
> Now that I see what you mean, yes. I was confusing your word slope
> with what engineers use! If I understand you correctly, that bVP sets
> the distance from the first notehead to the beam and bS sets the
> distance up or down that the end of the beam is to be relative to the
> start of the beam, they will work fine if they use the same units as
> stemLength. Since stemLength will probably be set globally, I
> withdraw my comment about its use for beam location.
Good. Name and dim. will be fixed.
> I note though that you will need a bVP="auto" and bS="auto" to
> restore to default conditions. In the cases I cited in my previous
> notes (fHS, nHS & fS), default was a specific value.
Note, from the example, that I used #f for that.
Jan.
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