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Re: Stem lenghts


From: Han-Wen Nienhuys
Subject: Re: Stem lenghts
Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 23:30:12 -0300

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
>> LilyPond does not use a hardcoded set of rules; rather, it tries to
>> score different configurations, and pick the one with the best
>> scores.  This is a technique that works much better than hardcoding
>> different rules, but in some cases there are small divergences with
>> the 'prescribed' quants. We even have a regtest for it, see
>> input/regression/beam-quant-standard.ly
>>
>> It might be possible to tune the scoring parameters to copy Ross
>> exactly, but probably some other configurations will fall over.
>
> I can imagine that after the scoring there's a second pass to
> fine-tune the result, for example, to `snap' various parts of the beam
> to the staff lines where possible.

No, that would not work; the snapped position was also scored and did
not win, so in many cases there is something wrong with it.

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Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen




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