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Owner: [email protected]
Labels: Type-Ugly
New issue 3173 by [email protected]: beam thickness should depend on
line thickness
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3173
Currently beam thickness is defined in terms of staffspace only. That gives
unsatisfactory results.
Staffline thickness (measured relative to staff height) changes with staff
size (it gets relatively thicker with smaller staff sizes), while beam
thickness does not change (because it's defined in staffspaces). This leads
to poor results: for staff-size 20 beamThickness/stafflineThickness ratio
is 4.8, while for staff-size 10 it's only 2.9 - beams in small sizes appear
thin.
In other words, "optical sizing" (described here
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/essay/engraving-details#optical-sizing)
doesn't work for beam thickness.
Attachments:
beams-at-size-10.png 15.5 KB
beams-at-size-20.png 39.2 KB
