Thomas Morley-2 wrote > Am Fr., 21. Dez. 2018 um 23:18 Uhr schrieb Reggie <
> reegistoop@ > >: > >> >> Is there a way in LilyPond to simply add a beam line without changing the >> time or anything else behind the elements? I mean, visually say I had a >> c16 >> feather beam measure that had all the math and checks OK. But I wanted 3 >> lines for my feather beams. Can you add a "extra" beam line without >> having >> it impact anyy other elements? In score music. > > Well, yes, it's possible, you can always rewrite the stencil, but it > would mean far more work than scaling durations. > >> That would help me because I >> am slower than you with math. > > I don't see a problem here. > > Say you have an 8th: { \time 1/8 c''8[] } > This code creates a single 8th note with a one beam-segments > > Now we want an equal lasting note with two beam-segmants. > So write the half duration, i.e. c''16 and double the it's length: { > \time 1/8 c''16*2[] } > Or use \scaleDurations: { \time 1/8 \scaleDurations 2 c''16[] } > > Same for three beam-segments: { \time 1/8 \scaleDurations 4 c''32[] } > > etc > Note, if \scaleDurations should be applied to more than one note, { > and } are needed. > Other examples are in the NR > > Cheers, > Harm > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@ > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user Back on topic WHy does measure now have no spacing out duration even though I use { } around the whole feather area? See it works then it doesn't work. Why am i wrong? I tried 1 2, 2 1, 1/2, and 2/1. \new Staff \relative c' { \override Beam.grow-direction = #LEFT \featherDurations #(ly:make-moment 2 1) { c32[ d e f g f g f]} c4 c c | \revert Beam.grow-direction c4 e d f c d e f d f } -- Sent from: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/User-f3.html _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user