On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 7:47 AM Valentin Petzel <valen...@petzel.at> wrote:
> Are you sure about this? It is incredibly hard to cut diagonal lines with > a > chisel. As I mentioned half an hour ago this would have hardly any effect > in > the common cases anyway. > No, I'm not sure about this. It was my understanding, but my understanding could be wrong. > > And my intent is not to propose a new default, but to initiate some > discussion. This should not affect common notation practise (unless you > want to > reproduce a style with very little distance between the Beam, in which > case > reasonable slopes do cause bad results), but might be relevant for some > more > modern stuff. > > I think having options is good. And it may be that there is a difference between a single beam and multiple beams. If there is a single beam that's exceptionally steep, only one end will be on the staff, and we can fudge the location of the beam (make it a straddle beam). We don't have to worry about what happens with adjacent beams. If we have multiple beams, we have to make the inter-beam spacing work, which may be a substantial challenge. I think (especially in the case of multiple beams) there's much more to properly changing the optical weight of a steep beam than just changing the beam's thickness. Thanks, Carl