>
> The alternative typesetting for the half-staff-space slope would be to
> place the 1/32 beam hanging from the g staff line on the right hand side,
> and sitting on the e staff line on the left hand side, and then have the
> 1/16 and 1/8 beams 3/4 of a staff space below the next beam above, so they
> don't need need to touch a staff line. But then the stems would be 2 staff
> spaces longer in measure 2 of the regtest.
>
> But more damping will lead to longer stems in 16th beams. I think that is
> user-configurable. Have you been able to get more damping and have 16th
> beams fail to touch staff lines? If so, I think that would be a bug, in
> the sense of behavior contrary to design intent.
>
> And it would be really nice in the issue to have a simple example that
> shows the problem, so a regression test can be created to validate the fix.
>
HI Carl,
Stems being longer to accomodate correct beam placement is in fact the
traditional engraving practice - explicitly mentioned by Gould and others.
There's also the case of notes close together which should take a flatter
angle than the interval suggests. I can remember both of these issues
appearing in the default (damping = #1) environnement, although damping =
#2 seems to fix that part of the problem.
As for 16th beams, here's three short examples, all taken from a piece I
just engraved and had to correct manually in each case:
\version "2.24.4"
\language "deutsch"
\relative c''' {
\key b \major
\override Beam.damping = #2
\time 2/4
a16[ c c d,]
c[ f a f]
\time 3/8
f,[ es d c b8]
}
[image: image.png]
Without the damping the 16th beams don't end up in a stave space (although
then they're too steep as Luise showed with the Ross example), though the
mixed 8th/16th beam still ends up with the secondary beam in a space:
[image: image.png]
Achieving the correct beam angles (in my opinion, as a look through various
editions of any piece will invariably reveal and even Gould and probably
Ross too say, different engravers may end up with slightly different
angles) in each case only necessitated flattening the beam by moving one or
both ends by at most one staff space, i.e. precisely the slight lengthening
or shortening necessary "to allow for correct beam positioning within the
stave":
[image: image.png]
I'll try to take some time to type up a proper regtest-like example.
Cheers,
Aleksa
