Re: documentation addition (tremolo beams)

[Trevor Daniels]

Mark

Many thanks for the suggestion, and I agree it would be a useful addition to 
the docs.  However, the way we add examples which use overrides is via 
snippets.  If your suggestion is added to the LSR and tagged with 
'repeats,docs' it will appear automatically in the Repeats snippet list in 
section 1.4.  Even better, once in the LSR, I can easily add it as a 
Selected Snippet as part of Tremolo repeats.

Valentin, can you add this as a snippet, or shall we wait until Seba gets 
back?

Trevor

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Polesky" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 7:34 PM
Subject: documentation addition (tremolo beams)


> Hi all,
>
> The vast amount of time it took me to figure out this simple solution 
> inspired
> me to actually recommend some changes to the docs. Whoever's in charge of 
> this,
> feel free to edit it if needed. Thanks again for an awesome program.
>
> Mark
>
> ----
>
> In section 1.4.2 Short repeats::Tremolo repeats, after the fourth 
> paragraph
> ("...two whole notes joined by tremolo beams."), I'd like to recommend 
> these
> 2 new paragraphs:
>
> ----
>
> Stemmed tremolos with open note-heads (appearing like half-notes) are 
> normally
> typeset with beams that connect to the stems. Certain engraving styles 
> typeset
> some of these beams as centered floating beams that do not touch the 
> stems. The
> number of floating beams in this type of tremolo is controlled with the
> gap-count property of the Beam object:
>
>  \repeat tremolo 8 { a'32 f' }
>  \override Beam #'gap-count = #1
>  \repeat tremolo 8 { a'32 f' }
>  \override Beam #'gap-count = #2
>  \repeat tremolo 8 { a'32 f' }
>  \override Beam #'gap-count = #3
>  \repeat tremolo 8 { a'32 f' }
>
> The size of the gaps between beams and stems is set with the gap 
> property::
>
>  \override Beam #'gap-count = #3
>  \override Beam #'gap = #1.33
>  \repeat tremolo 8 { a'32 f' }
>  \override Beam #'gap = #1
>  \repeat tremolo 8 { a'32 f' }
>  \override Beam #'gap = #0.67
>  \repeat tremolo 8 { a'32 f' }
>  \override Beam #'gap = #0.33
>  \repeat tremolo 8 { a'32 f' }
>
>
>
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