>> I think the point of this regtest is to demonstrate that for
>> triply-beamed stems, lilypond chooses to put beams in bad locations
>> in order to avoid a worse problem of stems that go too far outside
>> of the staff. This is showing a design decision. I'm not saying
>> it's a proper decision, but that it is a design decision.
>
> Yk that's fair, 32nd beams are tricky af. Personally I'm more
> concerned with 16th beams, but yeah those are a huge problem. also
> Aleksa, something I've just noticed – a 0.25 staff-space slant also
> doesn't work for 32nd beams. See the top left beam end? yeah it
> doesn't touch the middle staff line:
Such details should also be added to an issue. Note, however, that
using a smaller damping angle also depends on the time a score got
typeset – scores before, say, 1915 use steeper beams in general. In
any case, LilyPond should be able to handle various damping values
gracefully.
Werner
