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Re: Stem lenghts


From: Han-Wen Nienhuys
Subject: Re: Stem lenghts
Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 18:07:14 -0300

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Mark Polesky <address@hidden> wrote:
> As far as implementing this, I have no idea. I
> don't know how LilyPond is set up to calculate
> these things, and I imagine making changes of this
> sort would be quite involved. I'll leave that to
> the developers.

The rules in Ross' books are guidelines, and they certainly don't
cover all the cases.

LilyPond does not use a hardcoded set of rules; rather, it tries to
score different configurations, and pick the one with the best scores.
 This is a technique that works much better than hardcoding different
rules, but in some cases there are small divergences with the
'prescribed' quants. We even have a regtest for it, see
input/regression/beam-quant-standard.ly

It might be possible to tune the scoring parameters to copy Ross
exactly, but probably some other configurations will fall over.

-- 
Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen




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