Re: Issue 37 - new work

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

pressed send too soon.

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Mike Solomon <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> I cooked up this musical example that shows both responses to upward and 
>> downward pressure to give you an idea of where I'm coming from.
>>
>> Is there a way to get this type of collision avoidance w/o a 2nd quanting 
>> pass?
>
> You are now dramatically extending the problem scope: you are looking
> for a configuration that optimizes configurations of all beams at the
> same time.  For example, it is conceivable that individually, the beam
> for A below staff would be better served when the beam goes up the
> line of D''.  However, that would leave no room for the A' beam, since
> it would be on top of the A'' beam.
>
> A solution that would work for this should optimize all of the beams
> at the same time.  It might be feasible to code, but probably only if
> you restrict all the beams to be

horizontal.  The tie formatting is similar: it also tries to find a
configuration where *all* ties between a chord are more or less OK.

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