Re: Bach, beams, and benchmarks

[David Kastrup]

Abraham Lee <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi, Chad!
>
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 11:19 AM Chad Linsley <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I’m by no means a seasoned Lilypond pro but I’ve been exploring how the
>> program handles beams. In the essay, the 1950 Barenreiter Bach cello suite
>> edition is held up as a benchmark of high quality engraving. Seeing this
>> really helps the user understand why Lilypond’s default slurs are shaped
>> the way they are (not overly curvaceous). However, when I entered the first
>> few systems, the beaming was much steeper than in the Barenreiter. It only
>> started looking closer to it when I put a blank measure on the end (three
>> measures to system = tighter spacing). I then tried the various tweaking
>> parameters for beams which worked fine on a beam-to-beam basis. What I’m
>> curious about is whether or not Lilypond can be set to produce beaming
>> closer to the Barenreiter without quite as much intervention. For example,
>> the damping factor didn’t respond very sensitively when I tried using
>> decimal points.
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks!
>>
>
> Here's my first page of this piece.

I'd have been interested in the second one, the multi-string passages
close to the end.  Since there are fingerings in your page, you are
obviously not writing an Urtext.

-- 
David Kastrup