Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: >> The behaviour of beamed-lengths beamed-minimum-free-lengths and >> beamed-extreme-minimum-free-lengths is also a bit fuzzy to me. If I've >> understood correctly the beamed-lengths specifies the basic length of the >> stem and beamed-extreme-minimum-free-lengths the shortest possible stem >> length. The beamed-minimum-free-lengths seems to be used for setting the >> stem length when the note is positioned on the middle staff line. Am I >> right? > > No, the function seems to be almost the same as beamed-lengths, but > adds the size of any tremolo and the heights of the beams to that as > well. It's not completely clear to me that these two are independent. > Unfortunately this code is old and very hairy. > > Jan, can you comment?
Yes, this sounds odd. IIRC, the free length is just the stem without the tremolo's. I guess that the free and extream variants were also used in the beam code once, before we started to use scoring. Possibly we should score tremolo's too, if there are still problems there. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
