Re: A beam positioning question

[Mats Bengtsson]

These kind of aspects can seldomly be regarded as bugs, but the 
intention in LilyPond is
to provide as beatiful results as possible in as many cases as possible. 
If you look at the
regression tests for LilyPond at
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/input/regression/collated-files
and search for test where the names start with "beam-", you will see 
that there are lots of
different situations that are already taken into account in the algorithms.
There are also a number of properties that can be adjusted to modify the 
results.
You may be able to find alternative property settings that give a nicer 
result in
this particular example but the difficult thing is to avoid that you 
then get an uglier
layout in other examples.

   /Mats

Patrick McCarty wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I don't know if this is a bug, so I'm posting to -devel.
>
> In this example, are the beams supposed to be closer to the noteheads
> on beats one and three?  I like the look of the beam's position for
> beat two.
>
> %% Begin
> \version "2.11.63"
>
> \relative c' {
>   c16 g' c r
>   d,16 a' d r
>   e,16 b' e r
> }
> %% End
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick
>
>
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