Re: Tremolo beams between more than two notes

[Martin Kretzschmar]

Thanks Reinhold!

On 7 December 2010 23:45, Reinhold Kainhofer <address@hidden> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 7. Dezember 2010, um 20:08:59 schrieb Martin Kretzschmar:
>> \relative c' { \time 4/1 \repeat tremolo 16 { e16 s s g } }
>
>
> Ahm, you don't want a time signature of 4/1! In tremolo notation, each note is
> displayed in the duration of the whole tremolo. In your example, the tromolo
> only last for four quarters (so each of the notes is shown as a whole).

Ah, thanks for explaining that detail (and of course, that also
matches the time signature in the scanned example).

> In Lilypond 2.13.x multi-note tremolos are supported natively:

Awesome. I'm building 2.13.41 now.

> \version "2.13.41"
> \relative c' {
>  \repeat "tremolo" 4 { e16 g c g }
>  \repeat "tremolo" 4 { e16 a c a }
>  \repeat "tremolo" 4 { f16 a c a }
> }
>
> In 2.12.x there is no way I'm aware of to produce what you want.

Thanks,
Martin