Re: Proposal for resolving Half/Quarter note ambiguity on pure tablature staves (with partial code mod)

[Neil Puttock]

2009/3/2 Ricdude <address@hidden>:
> Ian Hulin <ian <at> hulin.org.uk> writes:
>
>> > What I'd like to have output is something like:
>> >
>> >         __        _____
>> >         |     |   |  _|
>> > -----+--|-----|---|---|----
>> > -----+--|-----|---|---|----
>> > -----+--|-----|---|---|----
>> > --2--+--2-----2---2.--2----
>> > -----+---------------------
>> > -----+---------------------
>>
>> Ric, this is a problem.  With your proposal the up stem for a half note
>> will look uncomfortably like an unbeamed eighth note.
>
> Ahh, I see how you're interpreting my poor ascii rendition.  The thickness of
> the half note flag should be the same thickness as the stem itself, not a 
> beam.
> The half note flag is more like a bent stem, instead of a separate flag.
>
> Does that shed any light on how to address this?

I'm not sure it's the right approach to include conditional code in
the backend which is dependent on the context; it would be simpler to
set the flag type using a callback for the Stem object.

If you have a look at the News page for version 2.12, you'll see two
examples of custom flags, which could easily be adapted to override
the default behaviour just for minims.

Regards,
Neil