Re: Issue 569 in lilypond: Consistency in property names: beam-thickness

[Mats Bengtsson]

On the other hand, if we do this change, then we loose the consistency with
all other objects, where the property name "thickness" is used to denote
the thickness. In my opinion, we would get even more consistency if we
renamed beam-thickness to thickness also for StemTremolo objects
(even though, as I've already said, it's perhaps less obvious what the
thickness means for a StemTremolo).
Regarding the confusion about what unit of measurement is used for the
thickness of different objects, it's easy to extend the current 
documentation
of thickness to say that "... measured in line-thickness units except 
for Beam
and StemTremolo objects, where it's measured in staff-space units."

  /Mats

address@hidden wrote:
> Issue 569: Consistency in property names: beam-thickness
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=569
>
> New issue report by v.villenave:
> Currently, the beam-thickness property is only used for
> StemTremolo objects. It might be better to change
> the property name for the thickness of all beams to be
> "beam-thickness", which has the descriptive string, "Beam
> thickness, measured in staff-space units", and a default
> value of 0.48.
>
> See also 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2008-02/msg00000.html
>
>
>
> Issue attributes:
>     Status: Accepted
>     Owner: v.villenave
>     Labels: Type-Enhancement Priority-Low

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