Hi Steph,
I'm not an expert with the \featherDurations interface, but this:
On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 3:53 PM Steph Phillips <stephbotco...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> \once \override Beam.grow-direction = #LEFT
> \featherDurations 6/4 { d16[-. d-. d-. d-. d-. d]-. } |
>
seems to disagree with how the tutorial describes it:
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/feathered-beams
There, that ratio (*unlike* with tuplets) describes the ratio in duration
between the first and last value of the feathered group, *not* their
relationship to unmodified durations. So if you wanted the first note to be
a sixteenth and the last to be an eighth, you'd use "2/1". I don't know how
you'd get six sixteenths to fit within the duration of a half note, though,
as the feathered interface doesn't seem to account for tuplet-like
durations. Or, at least, it doesn't seem to be documented. Maybe you'd have
to nest one inside the other? Something like
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\tuplet 6/8 {
\once \override Beam.grow-direction = #LEFT
\featherDurations 2/1 { d16[-. d-. d-. d-. d-. d]-. }
}
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(the stickler in me would complain that tuplets should always indicate a
shortening of length, and this is technically putting six sixteenths in the
space of eight, but I guess the feathering overrules that)
Anyway, maybe that helps?
Cheers,
A
