Re: wrong beam positions in LilyPond

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> wrote:

> Yep, i got it working, too.  I was just looking for an explanation of
> symbols used.
>
> From what i see in beam-quanting.cc,
> L means penalty for too short/too long stems,
> H is a penalty for horizontal beams not covering staff lines,
> Si is a penalty for slope being different than ideal,
> Sm is a penalty for sloping the beam in different direction than notes.
>
> but i don't understand what these mean:
> Sd

These are penalties if slope sign is incorrect (eg. beam goes up, but
the ideal is to be horizontal).

> F

Forbidden quants.  For 16th and higher beams, the secondary beams can
also not be in between staff lines.

> C

Collisions with other objects.

> Also, basically every beam "score" has something like c1/* , e.g.
> c1/196. c1/256.  I didn't find anything about these in beam-quanting,
> can you help?
>

See Beam_scoring_problem::solve(); the first number is the index of
the chosen solution, the second the number of candidates.

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