Hi Harm,

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Thomas Morley <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Surely you noticed that I'm not a native-english-speaker. This is one of
> the cases where I've got a problem. I can't translate blot-diameter and so I
> don't know what it is or how to use. (Of course I know how to translate
> "blot" and "diameter", but I'm in the dark with the meaning of
> "blot-diameter" of a polygon. There are some other files in .scm where it is
> used, but these doesn't enlights me too)
>
>

 I wasn't familiar with this terminology either, but I've figured out that
it is a measurement related to the rounded edges which makes LilyPond output
resemble hand engraving.  I've attached an image which shows beams with
different blot-diameters (in blue) superimposed on beams with no rounding at
all (black).  The first value, 0.08, is the default blot-diameter at staff
size 20.  The other values are multiples of the default beam-thickness,
0.48.  You can picture the rounding created by a circle with the given
diameter.

This was created using a modification of the \beam command.  In all cases, I
used the same width and length for the beam, only varyng the 'blot-diameter.

Thanks a lot!
>

I'm glad to help! (Hopefully I've not said something inaccurate here -- I'm
learning as I go along!)

-David

<<attachment: blot-diameter.png>>

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