Hi all, While Lilypond tends to do a very good job in most cases, there are two issues which seem to be recurring a fair bit in the music I'm typesetting: -beam angles being too steep -beams crossing staff lines (which is a style choice, arguably, but usually avoided by the better publisher out there) -in a few rare cases, an angled beam starting or ending in a space (this is generally frowned upon, cf. Gould, p. 17f)
Both of these can be arguably rather easily be fixed with manual overrides (fyi, if necessary: the syntax is \once \override Beam.positions = #'(-3 . -2.75) , numbers adjusted as needed); but of course that takes time, makes for pretty unreadable code post facto, and is in fact one of the most frequent and few things I have to fix manually, so if it were at all possible to make beams shallower by default that would be a huge time saver. I don't know enough about the internals to know where even to look at for something like this (it is at least independent of notation font as far as I can test out). If I may mention it, I've seen something similar discussed regarding another open-source software here [ https://musescore.org/en/node/152276] (with reference to how one of the other WYSIWYG options allows to set defaults for it, scroll down a bit). As an example, here are the first few bars of the 1st violon part from KV 418: \version "2.24.4" \language "deutsch" \score { << \new Staff { \key a \major \time 2/2 \relative c'' { r2^"Default" r8 cis16.[( e32] a8[) a-.] | a4 r r8 e16.[( a32] cis8[) cis-.] | cis4 r r2 | r r8 d,16.[( fis32] h8[) h-.] | h4 r r8 f16.[( h32] d8[) d-.] | } } \new Staff { \key a \major \time 2/2 \relative c'' { r2^"Manual fix" r8 \once \override Beam.positions = #'(-3 . -2.75) cis16.[( e32] a8[) a-.] | a4 r r8 \once \override Beam.positions = #'(-2.25 . -2) e16.[( a32] cis8[) cis-.] | cis4 r r2 | r r8 \once \override Beam.positions = #'(-2.25 . -2) d,16.[( fis32] h8[) h-.] | h4 r r8 \once \override Beam.positions = #'(-1.25 . -1) f16.[( h32] d8[) d-.] | } } >> } You can of course compare with the old Breitkopf offering on IMSLP; the more recent Neue Mozart Ausgabe is very similar to that and both match the manual fixes I have applied: [image: image.png] Cheers, Aleksa Jakovljevic, harpsichordist / organist / musicologist Montreal, Quebec, Canada
