Re: Increasing the gap between beams

[Trevor Daniels]

Elliot

I believe the following is true, but it doesn't really help you much.  If 
anyone knows better, please correct me.

AFAICS the gap property of Beam is no longer used.  The positioning of beams 
is automatically determined to give positions related to the staff lines in 
a process called "quanting".  If you look at any LilyPond score you will see 
that the beams' starting and ending points are positioned so they either 
just touch or are centered over a staff/ledger line, or are centered in a 
staff space.  This avoids tiny gaps between beams and staff lines which 
would look ugly, especially on horizontal beams.  The process is a complex 
weighting algorithm, so I doubt if there is an easy solution for your 
thicker beams.  The algorithm seems to give poor results for beam 
thicknesses greater than about 0.6.

Trevor

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elliot Isaacson" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 6:16 AM
Subject: Increasing the gap between beams


> Hello,
>
> I am just discovering lilypond. It is amazing.
>
> I am typesetting a score and I wanted to increase the thickness of the 
> notation
> to give it an "inkier" look.
>
> \override Beam #'thickness = #.68
> \override Stem #'thickness = #2
> \override Stem #'length = #7.6
> \override Stem #'details #'beamed-lengths = #'(3.8 4.2 4.6)
> \set fontSize = #1
>
> These tweaks look great until lilypond starts to draw 16th notes. The two 
> beams
> are thick enough so that they absorb the space between them and look like 
> one
> thick single beam.
>
> My best guess was to change the Beam gap property, but his line has no 
> effect in
> 2.10.29 or 2.11.57:
>
> \override Beam #'gap = #any_number_here
>
> How can I override the distance between beams?
>
> Thanks.
> Elliot
>
>
>
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