Re: Multiple beams too close to noteheaD

[Urs Liska]

Am 01.02.2016 um 10:15 schrieb Werner LEMBERG:
>> Attached you'll find examples for three and four beams, and I expect
>> this to continue with more beams.  I have colored the ones too close
>> in red and adjusted them (blue) to Gould's minimum distance.
> Thanks for your analysis, to which I agree in general.  However, I
> consider some of your beam distances unnecessarily too far away from
> the center.  For example, in the second line, 8th beam group (note
> `a'): The topmost staff line should touch the lowest beam at the top,
> not at the bottom.  There are similar situations in other lines.
>

OK, what I printed in blue are the examples Gould gives as correct
distances for three beams.

However, inferring from what she says about *two* beams and that a third
beam should be attached to the outside one would have to say the
"correct" distance would be to have the innermost beam *center* on the
line. That is: with the note a' the inner beam should center around the
topmost staff line, hanging below that line would be considered too close.

However, setting Stem.details.beamed-lengths to any value I don't
achieve that to inspect it visually. It seems that the beam quanting
code prevents that.

Urs

>     Werner