Hi Ming, I played a bit to reproduce the measure you sent. This was my first try to typset the upper staff:
\version "2.18.2" \relative c ' { \key g \major <c d fis a>4 <es g bes>8[ <d f g b>]:64---> ~ q2:32\fermata \bar "|." } However there are 3 things to notice (one on notation and 2 on Lilypond): 1. At least for Lilypond, the 3 slashes mean a 1/64th -tremolo - probably because the beam counts a fourth slash (?). This means the notation in your copy and in Lilypond has different opinions on this. I would choose a 1/32th-tremolo as for the half note chord at the end (i.e. 2 slashes + beam). 2. The beam gets very steep with this tremolo sign and it should not because the chords are on the level. This can be done by overriding Beam.positions. But I would have thought LilyPond is a bit more clever here out-of-the-box. 3. The second tie from the top is extremely short (just a dot). I think Lilypond should figure out somehow that a chord with a note on the right of the stem needs a bit longer ties than it is now. This can be done with a tweak (or an override) of the minimum-length. @Developers: Could one consider these two things a bug (ugly): Issues 2 and 3 here (tremolo shifts beam too much and ties in chords with seconds too short)? With these tweaks it looks ok: \version "2.18.2" \relative c ' { \key g \major \override Beam.positions = #'(3 . 3) <c d fis a>4 <es g bes>8[ <d f g b>]:32---> -\tweak #'minimum-length #4 ~ q2:32\fermata \bar "|." } Cheers, Joram _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user