RE: Notehead color on programmed pitch change (now \tweak)

[Peter Gentry]

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>From: Phil Holmes [mailto:address@hidden 
>Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 11:49 AM
>To: Peter Gentry; address@hidden
>Cc: 'Thomas Morley'
>Subject: Re: Notehead color on programmed pitch change (now \tweak)
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Peter Gentry" <address@hidden>
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>Cc: "'Thomas Morley'" <address@hidden>
>Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 10:27 AM
>Subject: Re: Notehead color on programmed pitch change (now \tweak)
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>> Further to this it seems the effect of this tweak is rather 
>odd. The color 
>> of the following note head is changed but the note stem
>> is also thinner and this effect carries over to the next 
>notes and indeed 
>> the number of notes affected varies see
>
>I think you'll find that this is nothing to do with tweak: 
>it's either the 
>way your PDF viewer rasterises the stems where the notehead is 
>above the 
>stave, or an optical illusion.  Rasterising them at 1200 dpi 
>and overlaying 
>the stems in a image manipulating program showed them to be 
>all identical.
>
>
>--
>Phil Holmes 

Yes it is noting to do with tweak it arises from using the magnifier in the 
Frecobaldi output window - this can produce  apparent
variations in note stem width. They are  an artefact and do not affect the 
printed output. Case closed.