Re: feathered beams

[Bryan, Chris]

If it isn't yet "officially" possible (although I like your hack!), I 
would absolutely LOVE to see it as a feature in a future release.
(Consider that a subtle hint to the developers!)

More specifically, it would be cool to be able to specify the number of 
starting/ending beams, allow for direction changes in mid-group, and 
the total duration of the group.  For midi it could then dynamically 
calculate the duration of each individual note.

I don't know how hard it would be to implement that, but I do know a 
bit of c++.  If the developers need any grunt-work accomplished, let me 
know.

By the way, in my opinion, the coolest LY feature is the automatic midi 
pitch bends when using microtonal accidentals.  It rocks!!!

a happy composer,

-Chris Bryan


On Jun 14, 2004, at 12:13 PM, Peter Lutek wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 11:16, Bryan, Chris wrote:
> > Is it possible to do feathered beams in LY?  If so, how?
>
> there is no native mechanism for this. i hacked it a while ago by 
> making
> two simultaneous beamed note-groups, with the beams tilted opposite
> directions in each, and tweaked so the beam start-points were the same.
> lily's spacing algorithm was sufficiently reliable that i didn't have 
> to
> worry about making one set of noteheads or stems disappear - they 
> always
> coincided exactly.
>
> that was back on 2.0.0, so things may have changed since then.
>
> if anyone else has a better solution, i'd love to hear it too!
>
> -p