Re: Problem with horizontal beams

[Graham Percival]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 01:24:26PM +0000, James Lowe wrote:
> There seems to be an inconsistency with setting horizontal beams.
> \override Beam #'damping = #+inf.0

IIRC, this is a hack rather than an "officially supported" thing
(whatever that might mean).

> We have a snippet where we state that

Correction: somebody posted a snippet in which they *claimed*
that:

> Should generate horizontal beams in all cases.

and no developer has said "that snippet is obviously wrong" (quite
possibly because nobody's looked at it)

We simply do not have the resources to ensure quality/truth in
snippets, either in LSR itself, or even in the subset that we
include in our docs.


That said, I agree that it would be useful to be able to get
horizontal beams.  The name might be \beamHorizontal, but that's a
useless detail that's pointless to quibble about.  The important
thing is adding this new feature to the beaming code.

Bug squad: I suggest Enhancement-Low-Frog.  Frog ETA: 10 hours.

Cheers,
- Graham