Hi, Chad! On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 11:19 AM Chad Linsley <cli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I’m by no means a seasoned Lilypond pro but I’ve been exploring how the > program handles beams. In the essay, the 1950 Barenreiter Bach cello suite > edition is held up as a benchmark of high quality engraving. Seeing this > really helps the user understand why Lilypond’s default slurs are shaped > the way they are (not overly curvaceous). However, when I entered the first > few systems, the beaming was much steeper than in the Barenreiter. It only > started looking closer to it when I put a blank measure on the end (three > measures to system = tighter spacing). I then tried the various tweaking > parameters for beams which worked fine on a beam-to-beam basis. What I’m > curious about is whether or not Lilypond can be set to produce beaming > closer to the Barenreiter without quite as much intervention. For example, > the damping factor didn’t respond very sensitively when I tried using > decimal points. > > Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks! > Here's my first page of this piece. You're on the right track. The only thing that would affect the beam positions in my personal stylesheet was the 'damping property which I have set to 2 instead of 1 (default). It's not exactly the same as the Barenreiter score in the essay, but it's *much* closer now. I've found that decimal values won't change the damping effect much, but whole numbers should (i.e., change the value to 1000 and you'll see what I mean). HTH, Abraham
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