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3.1.19 Beam

A beam.

Beam objects are created by the following engraver(s): Auto_beam_engraver, Beam_engraver, Chord_tremolo_engraver, Grace_auto_beam_engraver and Grace_beam_engraver.

Standard settings:

accidental-padding (number):

1.0

Property used by Beam to avoid accidentals in whole note tremolos.

auto-knee-gap (dimension, in staff space):

5.5

If a gap is found between note heads where a horizontal beam fits and it is larger than this number, make a kneed beam.

beam-thickness (dimension, in staff space):

0.48

Beam thickness, measured in staff-space units.

beamed-stem-shorten (list):

'(1.0 0.5 0.25)

How much to shorten beamed stems, when their direction is forced. It is a list, since the value is different depending on the number of flags and beams.

beaming (pair):

ly:beam::calc-beaming

Pair of number lists. Each number list specifies which beams to make. 0 is the central beam, 1 is the next beam toward the note, etc. This information is used to determine how to connect the beaming patterns from stem to stem inside a beam.

clip-edges (boolean):

#t

Allow outward pointing beamlets at the edges of beams?

collision-interfaces (list):

'(beam-interface
   clef-interface
   clef-modifier-interface
   flag-interface
   inline-accidental-interface
   key-signature-interface
   note-head-interface
   stem-interface
   time-signature-interface)

A list of interfaces for which automatic beam-collision resolution is run.

damping (number):

1

Amount of beam slope damping.

details (alist, with symbols as keys):

'((beam-eps . 0.001)
  (collision-padding . 0.35)
  (collision-penalty . 500)
  (damping-direction-penalty . 800)
  (hint-direction-penalty . 20)
  (ideal-slope-factor . 10)
  (musical-direction-factor . 400)
  (over-beam-height . 0.75)
  (region-size . 2)
  (round-to-zero-slope . 0.02)
  (secondary-beam-demerit . 10)
  (slash-slope . 2)
  (slash-side . -1)
  (slash-stem-fraction . 0.3)
  (slash-thickness . 0.1)
  (slash-X-positions -0.5 . 1)
  (stem-collision-factor . 0.1)
  (stem-length-demerit-factor . 5)
  (stem-length-limit-penalty . 5000))

An alist of parameters for detailed grob behavior. See All layout objects for more information on the available parameters and their default values of a particular grob’s details property. See Graphical Object Interfaces for documentation of the available parameters. Supporting interfaces can be found at the bottom of a grob’s description section.

direction (direction):

ly:beam::calc-direction

If side-axis is 0 (or X), then this property determines whether the object is placed LEFT, CENTER or RIGHT with respect to the other object. Otherwise, it determines whether the object is placed UP, CENTER or DOWN. Numerical values may also be used: UP=1, DOWN=-1, LEFT=-1, RIGHT=1, CENTER=0.

font-size (number):

-6

The font size, compared to the ‘normal’ size. 0 is style-sheet’s normal size, -1 is smaller, +1 is bigger. Each step of 1 is approximately 12% larger; 6 steps are exactly a factor 2 larger. If the context property fontSize is set, its value is added to this before the glyph is printed. Fractional values are allowed.

gap (dimension, in staff space):

0.8

Size of a gap in a variable symbol.

knee (boolean):

ly:beam::calc-knee

Is this beam kneed?

minimum-length (dimension, in staff space):

6.0

Try to make a spanner at least this long, normally in the horizontal direction. This requires an appropriate callback for the springs-and-rods property. If added to a Tie, this sets the minimum distance between noteheads.

neutral-direction (direction):

-1

Which direction to take in the center of the staff.

normalized-endpoints (pair):

ly:spanner::calc-normalized-endpoints

Represents left and right placement over the total spanner, where the width of the spanner is normalized between 0 and 1.

positions (pair of numbers):

beam::place-broken-parts-individually

Pair of staff coordinates (start . end), where start and end are vertical positions in staff-space units of the current staff. For slurs, this value selects which slur candidate to use; if extreme positions are requested, the closest one is taken.

springs-and-rods (boolean):

ly:beam::tremolo-springs-and-rods

Dummy variable for triggering spacing routines.

stencil (stencil):

ly:beam::print

The symbol to print.

transparent (boolean):

#<procedure at lily/output-lib.scm:1702:0 (grob)>

This makes the grob invisible.

vertical-skylines (pair of skylines):

#<unpure-pure-container ly:grob::vertical-skylines-from-stencil ly:grob::pure-simple-vertical-skylines-from-extents >

Two skylines, one above and one below this grob.

X-positions (pair of numbers):

ly:beam::calc-x-positions

Pair of X staff coordinates of a spanner in the form (left . right), where both left and right are in staff-space units of the current staff.

This object supports the following interface(s): beam-interface, grob-interface, spanner-interface, staff-symbol-referencer-interface and unbreakable-spanner-interface.

This object is of class Spanner (characterized by spanner-interface).