Re: how to "damp" TupletBracket slope?

[Trevor Bača]

On 9/10/07, Adam James Wilson <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'd like to be able to "damp" TupletBrackets the way you can damp
> Beams to force horizontal TupletBrackets.  I can't seem to find a
> similar method in the docs (I'm using 2.11.32).
>
> It seems that there was a "delta-y" argument for bracket slope in a
> much much older version of Lily . . .
>
> Is there a way of doing this in the current version?


Hi Adam,

If you're wanting to dampen brackets to the make them perfectly flat,
you're in luck: just set the TupletBracket's staff-padding to a
sufficiently large value; the bracket will push away from the staff
and flatten completely. (As a global setting this works well to
produce flat brackets to accompany, for example, flat beams set with
Beam #'positions = #'(x . x).)

If, on the other hand, you're wanting to dampen brackets *not* to make
them perfectly flat but rather to *keep* them sloped (while
simultaneously controlling the *amount* of slope), then that's a
different matter entirely. No idea how you would get at that ...


Trevor.


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Trevor Bača
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