Re: Extending beamed stems

[Daniel Johnson]

Watch out when upgrading from 2.4 to 2.5 if you use lots of TeX markup
(and it looks like you might, to achieve your /pedalc markup).  Since
2.5 does not use TeX as a backend by default, you'll have to recode this
stuff using standard markup.  Version 2.5 writes PostScript directly
without processing as TeX first.

--Daniel

Henrik Frisk wrote:

>Your suggested solution seems to be the way to do it. I tried it quickly, but 
>the NoteColumn #'force-hshift didn't do anything. Now, that may be because I 
>am not using the 2.5 yet and i didn't start looking in the manual for a way to 
>achieve this in 2.4. I will upgrade and try again and in any event, you have 
>pointed me in the right direction, and I am sure i will be able to find out. I 
>am still curious to find out why the Voice.Beam #'X-extent and Voice.Beam 
>#'extra-offset doesn't have any effect. This was what I tried at first. 
>Anybody knows why me and Daniel are unsuccessful in getting the desired effect?
>
>Daniel Johnson <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>Hmm.  This is a real puzzler, because even though the Beam object
>>implements the grob-interface, only certain grob properties have any
>>effect.  Specifically, I tried the following on a small test file and
>>they did nothing:
>>
>>\once \override Voice.Beam #'X-extent = #'(0 . 15)
>>\once \override Voice.Beam #'extra-X-extent = #'(0 . 15)
>>
>>Oddly enough, the following DID have an effect:
>>\once \override Voice.Beam #'extra-offset = #'(0 . 15)
>>but of course I can't really imagine any use for this.
>>
>>Here's an idea:
>>
>>1. Just beam from the first three notes over to the high G-flat.
>>2. On the D in the left hand, do a \once \override Voice.Stem
>>#'flag-style = #'no-flag, and do a \stemUp.
>>3. On the D in the left hand, do a \once \override NoteColumn
>>#'force-hshift = #-1.  Adjust this value until the stem is aligned
>>perfectly with the stem of the note in the right hand.
>>4. On the D in the left hand, do a \once \override Voice.Stem #'length =
>>#12 or however long it needs to be to meet up with the beam.
>>
>>I did my research out of the 2.5 manual, so your mileage may vary; but I
>>don't think there's anything especially late-breaking about any of the
>>features I used above.  The noteheads of the eighth-notes in the left &
>>right hands won't be horizontally aligned, but their stems will meet the
>>beam in the same place.  Is that acceptable?
>>
>>--Daniel
>>
>>Henrik Frisk wrote:
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