Re: Flat beams

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Jim Sabatke writes:

> Bagpipers are used to reading music with flat beams. The stems should
> be long, enough to not interfere with the clutter of grace notes.
>
> I've done a lot of web research on beams, and various kinds of
> "concaveness" seem to be something what I'm looking for.
>
> I'm not sure what value(s) to set, and how to set them.
>
> Can anyone help?

Have a look at slope-limit (maybe damping)

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.2/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond-internals/Beam.html#Beam

(Documentation, program-reference, backend, layout objects (grobs), beam)

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