Thanks for looking into this for me. Reverting the thickness back a little is not a such a big deal. I appreciate you help.
Thanks, Elliot --- On Tue, 9/2/08, Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Increasing the gap between beams > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org, "Elliot Isaacson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tuesday, September 2, 2008, 4:24 AM > Elliot > > I believe the following is true, but it doesn't really > help you much. If > anyone knows better, please correct me. > > AFAICS the gap property of Beam is no longer used. The > positioning of beams > is automatically determined to give positions related to > the staff lines in > a process called "quanting". If you look at any > LilyPond score you will see > that the beams' starting and ending points are > positioned so they either > just touch or are centered over a staff/ledger line, or are > centered in a > staff space. This avoids tiny gaps between beams and staff > lines which > would look ugly, especially on horizontal beams. The > process is a complex > weighting algorithm, so I doubt if there is an easy > solution for your > thicker beams. The algorithm seems to give poor results > for beam > thicknesses greater than about 0.6. > > Trevor > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Elliot Isaacson" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <lilypond-user@gnu.org> > Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 6:16 AM > Subject: Increasing the gap between beams > > > > Hello, > > > > I am just discovering lilypond. It is amazing. > > > > I am typesetting a score and I wanted to increase the > thickness of the > > notation > > to give it an "inkier" look. > > > > \override Beam #'thickness = #.68 > > \override Stem #'thickness = #2 > > \override Stem #'length = #7.6 > > \override Stem #'details #'beamed-lengths > = #'(3.8 4.2 4.6) > > \set fontSize = #1 > > > > These tweaks look great until lilypond starts to draw > 16th notes. The two > > beams > > are thick enough so that they absorb the space between > them and look like > > one > > thick single beam. > > > > My best guess was to change the Beam gap property, but > his line has no > > effect in > > 2.10.29 or 2.11.57: > > > > \override Beam #'gap = #any_number_here > > > > How can I override the distance between beams? > > > > Thanks. > > Elliot > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > lilypond-user mailing list > > lilypond-user@gnu.org > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user