Re: Problem with horizontal beams

[Phil Holmes]

"Graham Percival" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
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> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 01:24:26PM +0000, James Lowe wrote:
> > There seems to be an inconsistency with setting horizontal beams.
> > \override Beam #'damping = #+inf.0
>
> IIRC, this is a hack rather than an "officially supported" thing
> (whatever that might mean).
>
> > We have a snippet where we state that
>
> Correction: somebody posted a snippet in which they *claimed*
> that:
>
> > Should generate horizontal beams in all cases.
>
> and no developer has said "that snippet is obviously wrong" (quite
> possibly because nobody's looked at it)
>
> We simply do not have the resources to ensure quality/truth in
> snippets, either in LSR itself, or even in the subset that we
> include in our docs.
>
>
> That said, I agree that it would be useful to be able to get
> horizontal beams.  The name might be \beamHorizontal, but that's a
> useless detail that's pointless to quibble about.  The important
> thing is adding this new feature to the beaming code.
>
> Bug squad: I suggest Enhancement-Low-Frog.  Frog ETA: 10 hours.
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham

I'd suggest the snippet is worth sorting out, too.  What do you reckon - 
adding the commands

    \override Beam #'details #'damping-direction-penalty = #0
    \override Beam #'details #'round-to-zero-slope = #0

to the existing snippet, or a new one pointed to by the old one, that says 
"if  \override Beam #'damping = #+inf.0 doesn't do what you want, add the 
other commands too, as shown here"?

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Phil Holmes
Bug Squad