Re: Flat beams

[Jim Sabatke]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Jim Sabatke writes:
>
>
> > Bagpipers are used to reading music with flat beams. The stems should
> > be long, enough to not interfere with the clutter of grace notes.
> >
> > I've done a lot of web research on beams, and various kinds of
> > "concaveness" seem to be something what I'm looking for.
> >
> > I'm not sure what value(s) to set, and how to set them.
> >
> > Can anyone help?
>
>
> Have a look at slope-limit (maybe damping)
>
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.2/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond-internals/Beam.html#Beam
>
> (Documentation, program-reference, backend, layout objects (grobs), beam)

I had found that document during my initial search for a 
solution, however, I have no idea how to use the functions 
or set the variables.  I couldn't find any examples; I 
searched the web, mail lists and my installed documents and 
examply ly files.

For example:  How does one set "slope-limit"?

Sorry for being such a newbie to this program.
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