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Changing beam thickness and spacing [0.39063]

Changing beam thickness and spacing

To make beams thicker or thinner alter the Beam.beam-thickness property. To adjust the spacing between beams alter the Beam.length-fraction property.

\relative f' { \time 1/8 \override Beam.beam-thickness = #0.4 \override Beam.length-fraction = #0.8 … …is default spacing c32 c c c \override Beam.beam-thickness = #0.6 \override Beam.length-fraction = #1.3 c32 c c c }

Changing beam thickness and spacing

Manually controlling beam positions [0.35714]

Manually controlling beam positions

Beam positions may be controlled manually, by overriding the positions setting of the Beam grob.

…staff-line (position 2) to center (position 0) \override Beam.positions = #'(2 . 0) c8 c % from center to one above center (position 1) \override Beam.positions = #'(0 . 1) c8 c }

Manually controlling beam positions

Changing beam knee gap [0.33929]

Changing beam knee gap

…be tuned through the auto-knee-gap property. A kneed beam is drawn if the gap is larger than … …value of auto-knee-gap plus the width of the beam object (which depends on the duration of the notes and the slope of the beam). By default auto-knee-gap is set to 5.5 …

{ f8 f''8 f8 f''8 \override Beam.auto-knee-gap = 6 f8 f''8 f8 f''8 }

Changing beam knee gap

Reverting default beam endings [0.28571]

Reverting default beam endings

…it is necessary first to override the default beam endings in 12/8, and then to set …

…a a a a % Set new values for beam endings \set Score.beatStructure = 3,4,3,2 …

Reverting default beam endings

Indicating the duration of a feathered beam [0.28571]

Indicating the duration of a feathered beam

…beamed notes (especially those joined by a feathered beam) using a tuplet.

…P.Schneider (Feb. 2014) \relative c' { \once \override Beam.grow-direction = #RIGHT \once \override TupletBracket.bracket-visibility = ##t %% set …

Indicating the duration of a feathered beam

Controlling beam damping [0.28348]

Controlling beam damping

…a' e' b' } } damping = \repeat unfold 7 { %% default beam damping is 1: \override Beam.damping = #1 s4^"… …2" \override Beam.damping = #4 s^"4" \override Beam.damping = #-3 s^"-3" \override Beam.damping = #+inf.0 s^"+inf.0" } \score { \…

Controlling beam damping

Beam nibs [0.28348]

Beam nibs

Beam nibs at the start and end of beams … …equivalent to \once \set. In other words, the beam count settings are not sticky , so the pair … …to do with the \set command for the beam before.

Beam nibs

Subdividing beams [0.24107]

…than the current metric value (usually because the beam is incomplete) the number of beams reflects the … …to a fraction giving the duration of the beam sub-group using the ly:make-moment function, as shown in …

…c c c c c c c] % Set beam sub-group length to an eighth note \set baseMoment = … …c c c c c c c] % Shorten beam by 1/32 \set baseMoment = #(ly:make-moment 1/… …c c c c c c] r32 % Shorten beam by 3/32 \set baseMoment = #(ly:make-moment 1/…

Subdividing beams

Beams across line breaks [0.23214]

…automatically break a line at places where a beam crosses a bar line. This behavior can be changed by setting the Beam.breakable property to #t. This property does not …

…repeat unfold 8 c8 } \relative c'' { <>^\markup { \typewriter Beam.breakable set to \typewriter "#t" } \override Beam.breakable = ##t \music } \relative c'' { <>^\markup { \typewriter Beam.breakable not set } \music } \paper { line-width = 100\mm …

Beams across line breaks

Altering the number of stems in a beam [0.21429]

Altering the number of stems in a beam

…can alter the number of stems in a beam. In this example, two sets of four 32nds …

Altering the number of stems in a beam

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