Thanks
I just wanted the option to have the look I'm more used to (beam-like
everywhere).
In regard to the length-fraction you are correct. In my case it looked
weird because I had modified the regular beam fraction so the rectangles
were a bit too close for my taste.
Best,
Dimitris
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 11:15 PM Thomas Morley <thomasmorle...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Am Do., 4. Feb. 2021 um 17:08 Uhr schrieb Dimitris Marinakis
> <dtsmari...@gmail.com>:
> >
> > I understand the reason behind the aesthetic choice of using a different
> type of tremolostem for beamed notes but the current implementation IMO
> doesn't work as good as the regular StemTremolo.
> >
> > • Slope is a simple rotation and not a real slope.
> > • You can't tweak the space (length-fraction) of tremolo beams
> independently from the beam(s)
> >
> > Are there any methods of applying the default StemTremolo to all notes
> regardless of them being beamed or not?
> >
> > I'd like to avoid making custom stems because it will need a lot of
> manual adjustments for each stem length. Unless you have a good code that
> accounts for different stem lengths etc.
>
> Hi,
>
> you did not provide any code to test, thus I wrote my own test-code,
> which may match your use-case or not ...
>
> The default implementation uses several conditions where to print
> rectangle or beam-like Tremolo.
> Here some code to show default decisions:
>
> {
> \cadenzaOn
> \autoBeamOff
> <>^"Defaults"
> \stemUp
>
> c''1:32
>
> c''4:32
>
> c''8:32
>
> c'8:32[
> d''8:32]
>
> c''8:32[
> d'8:32]
>
> \bar "||"
>
> \stemDown
> c''1:32
>
> c''4:32
>
> c''8:32
>
> c'8:32[
> d''8:32]
>
> c''8:32[
> d'8:32]
> \bar "||"
> }
>
> Tbh, I can't think of a use-case where I would prefer the rectangles.
> But you can override the behaviour to get _always_ rectangles or
> beam-like tremolos:
> \override StemTremolo.shape = #'rectangle
> \override StemTremolo.shape = #'beam-like
>
> Concerning the length-fraction:
> I can't think of a use case where I'd want a different length-fraction
> for the Beam and the StemTremolo at those beamed notes.
> Could you elaborate?
>
> Cheers,
> Harm
>
