Re: Tremolo positioning

[Joe Neeman]

It seems this issue doesn't bother anyone else? In any case, now that 2.8 is 
out there, I thought I'd start pushing this point again. I attach a patch 
that gives the behaviour that I think is correct. I also attach 2 examples of 
the differences between the existing and the proposed behaviours.

Joe

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:01, Joe Neeman wrote:
> I've finally put my finger on what was bothering me about lilypond
> tremolos -- they are too close to the noteheads.
>
> I think that the tremolo marks shouldn't depend on where the notehead
> is, but rather on the position of the end of the stem. Also, the stem
> should be made longer to accomodate the tremolo. For example, if I have
> doubled eighth notes, the stems should be as long as if they were 16th
> notes and the tremolo markings should go where the second beams would be
> if they were 16th notes.
>
> I attach 2 scanned examples, a Schirmer edition of Franck's sonata for
> violin and piano and a B&H edition of Bartok's solo violin sonata. I
> also attach lilypond versions of the snippets, just for comparison.
>
> I also have an example (no scan of this) where lilypond makes the stems
> so short that the tremolo and the notehead overlap. (Sorry for all the
> images. I've tried to keep them small.)
>
> Joe

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tremolo_20060326.patch
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