Elliot
I believe the following is true, but it doesn't really help you much. If
anyone knows better, please correct me.
AFAICS the gap property of Beam is no longer used. The positioning of beams
is automatically determined to give positions related to the staff lines in
a process called "quanting". If you look at any LilyPond score you will see
that the beams' starting and ending points are positioned so they either
just touch or are centered over a staff/ledger line, or are centered in a
staff space. This avoids tiny gaps between beams and staff lines which
would look ugly, especially on horizontal beams. The process is a complex
weighting algorithm, so I doubt if there is an easy solution for your
thicker beams. The algorithm seems to give poor results for beam
thicknesses greater than about 0.6.
Trevor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elliot Isaacson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 6:16 AM
Subject: Increasing the gap between beams
Hello,
I am just discovering lilypond. It is amazing.
I am typesetting a score and I wanted to increase the thickness of the
notation
to give it an "inkier" look.
\override Beam #'thickness = #.68
\override Stem #'thickness = #2
\override Stem #'length = #7.6
\override Stem #'details #'beamed-lengths = #'(3.8 4.2 4.6)
\set fontSize = #1
These tweaks look great until lilypond starts to draw 16th notes. The two
beams
are thick enough so that they absorb the space between them and look like
one
thick single beam.
My best guess was to change the Beam gap property, but his line has no
effect in
2.10.29 or 2.11.57:
\override Beam #'gap = #any_number_here
How can I override the distance between beams?
Thanks.
Elliot
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