Mats Bengtsson wrote on 01 February 2008 16:07 (to -user) > > Trevor Daniels wrote: > > > > By default the beam thickness is set to 0.48 of a > > staff-space (Note the IR is wrong is this respect; > > it says in units of line-thickness, which is normally > > right, but not for beams). So to move a beam with > > its top edge aligned to a position with its centre > > aligned you'll need to move it an extra 0.24. > > > > > Right! This is a property name that's used on > many different layout objects > and is included in several different interfaces. > The problem with the > documentation is the old usual one that there's > only one documentation > string per property name, no matter how many > different uses there are > for the same property name. Strangely enough, > there's also a property > called beam-thickness, that's only used for > StemTremolo objects. > I cannot see why the property name "thickness" > could not be used in that > application as well. On the other hand, it may be > less obvious what > "thickness" > refers to for a stem tremolo, compared to other > objects like stems or > beams or ... > Still, for consistency, I'd propose to use the > property name "thickness" > also > for stem tremolos. > If we are to propose a change it might be better to change the property name for the thickness of all beams to be "beam-thickness", which has the descriptive string, "Beam thickness, measured in staff-space units", and a default value of 0.48. It would seem ideal! However, it is a property of the stem-tremolo-interface, not the beam-interface, so the change is not likely to be easy. Or is it?
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