Re: Tremolo

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 29/10/2022 à 12:52, Craig Bakalian a écrit :
> Hi Everybody!
>
> Below is code I pulled from a larger score to show output warnings for 
> a tremolo. I have never had much success with the tremolo interface 
> because I am a lazy composer who spent 2 months writing the score, and 
> typesetting to make it all pretty for the performers is just too much, 
> lol. So, I hand them a score with tremolos that don't slant or angle 
> properly. I'm sure someone on this list will tell me how to be more 
> precise with tremolos in lilypond :).



Unfortunately, tremolos are an area of LilyPond that is known
not to be very polished — in particular, tremolos on whole notes
look ugly, as you found out. You didn't do anything wrong, LilyPond
is just not capable of typesetting this well automatically right
now. See

https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/1444

Meanwhile, you can place them manually by replacing something
like

\version "2.23.80"

\repeat tremolo 8 {
  bes'16 bes''
}


with

\version "2.23.80"

\repeat tremolo 8 {
  \stemDown
  \override Beam.positions = #'(-2 . 0)
  bes'16 bes''
  \stemNeutral
}


Best,
Jean