Re: a list of manually fine-tuned beaming exceptions?

[Phil Holmes]

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Phil Holmes


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janek Warchoł" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 12:05 PM
Subject: a list of manually fine-tuned beaming exceptions?


> Hi,
>
> while i'd love to improve beaming algorithm itself so that it would
> produce perfect beams on its own, it's a task way beyond my current
> skills. Still some wrong beams bother me very much, for example this
> one
>  \relative c'' { b8[ a16 g] }
> it's really too high, and the secondary beam doesn't cover the
> staffline despite being able to easily do so. Compare it to \relative
> c'' { g8[ f16 e] } - this one is more difficult (more stafflines to
> take care of), but executed better.
> I'd like to improve this situation and here is my idea: add a list of
> beaming "exceptions". Every time someone spots a beam done wrong,
> (s)he can write how proper beaming should look like and add it to
> source. When Lily would encounter a beam included in the list of
> exceptions, it would use that information instead of calculating beam
> on her own.
> What do you think? Would it require much work? (i mean implementing a
> way to add such exceptions, not filling this list)

Jan,

I'm not qualified to comment, and it seems it would be hard work, but you 
might be interested in this snippet in the music I'm setting now.  To me, 
the shorter beams look rather squashed, and I'm surprised they're not the 
same height as the longer ones, since the notes are so similar:

{
 \key d\major
 fis'16 ( [ a'16 fis'16 a'16 d'16 a16 ) ] g'16 ( [ a'16 g'16 a'16 cis'16 
a16 ) ]
}

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