Thank you Knute, I missed the crucial "A kneed beam is drawn if the gap is larger than the value of auto-knee-gap plus the width of the beam object (which depends on the duration of the notes and the slope of the beam)."
________________________________ Fra: Knute Snortum <[email protected]> Sendt: fredag, 19. desember 2025 23:56 Til: Eirik B <[email protected]> Kopi: [email protected] <[email protected]> Emne: Re: Kneed beaming for semiquavers On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM Eirik B <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hello, I find that Lilypond seemingly does not engrave kneed beams for semiquavers of large separation. LilyPond does in fact create kneed-beams with semiquavers, if the "gap" is large enough. The documentation states: "A kneed beam is drawn if the gap is larger than the value of auto-knee-gap plus the width of the beam object (which depends on the duration of the notes and the slope of the beam)." https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/beams (Scroll down to Changing Beam Knee Gap.) You can control the slope of the beam manually using beam positions. I don't know of an automatic way of doing this: %%% Start \version "2.24.4" \relative c'{ \once \override Beam.positions = #'(1 . 0) a16[ e''' d c] } %%% End -- Knute Snortum
