Tertiary beams: a case for widening/thickening?

[tisimst]

Yes, much better. Well done, Ben!

[OCTO]

I just wonder, benwiggy, why are the stems longer than octave?

[Fred G. Unn]

I've decreased the length of the stub (down from the factory length of 1 and 5/24th spaces(!) to 7/8)

They are "supposed" to be the width of a notehead, right?

Gould


Ross


Stone

[benwiggy]

That looks fine, Ben. The factory needs to issue a recall on that default.

In fairness, the factory default for space after dot is 1/2 space; I had it to 0 for some reason. Just using 1/8 was enough to fix it.

They are "supposed" to be the width of a notehead, right?

I guessed as much. A quick check in Affinity Designer shows that they are the teensiest bit wider than Bravura's noteheads, -- though because of the curve they look a lot wider. My Sebastian noteheads are a little smaller.

I just wonder, benwiggy, why are the stems longer than octave?

Good point. Strangely, changing the "shortened stem length for 16ths and smaller" doesn't seem to affect this pair. There must be some other setting somewhere.... Though it does seem to balance the other groups.

I dislike it when sometimes you see a beam on short stems immediately followed by a much taller stemmed beam. To my eye, this:

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looks better than this.

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Possibly a bad example, but .. that kind of thing.