Re: Broken beam to the left not working?

[Knute Snortum]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 12:39 PM Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> wrote:
>
>
> Le 29/03/2022 à 19:51, Knute Snortum a écrit :
> > I've come across an odd behavior, maybe a bug.  I am trying to create
> > a broken/partial/fragmented beam to the left of the note group.  I can
> > do it to the right just fine.  Some code may help illustrate what I mean:
[snip]
> I didn't investigate, but using \hideNotes is always hacky. There is a
> much better way:
>
> \version "2.22.2"
>
> \relative c''' {
>    s8
>    \set stemLeftBeamCount = 1
>    f,16[ e f]
> }
>
> \relative c'' {
>    f16[ e
>    \set stemRightBeamCount = 1
>    f] s8
> }
>
> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/beams#manual-beams
>
> Best,
> Jean
>

Thanks for this, Jean.  Do you know if there's a way to get the beams
to extend a little more to the left or right?