Re: always set beam outside of staff

[Andrew Bernard]

Greetings Harm,

Ugly is a subjective matter.

The work I do setting massively dense scores for my New Complexity School colleague uses his personal style where all beams are always outside the staff lines. This he does for various personal reasons, one of which is to in fact aid legibility in the dense scores where there is a lot going on on the staff area, and partly just his view of what ‘looks good’ (yet again subjective).

So there is a use case for this work, I’d say.

I manage it just by having a simple function for setting beam positions - but my scores seem to consist mostly of this function! :-)

Andrew

On 8 September 2016 at 11:33:35 PM, Thomas Morley (address@hidden) wrote:

well, it's doable. But why should I help you making LilyPond-output ugly?
Is there any usecase which makes sense?