Merge branch 'master' of carldsorensen@git.sv.gnu.org:/srv/git/lilypond into fret...

[lilypond.git] / scm / define-grob-properties.scm

diff --git a/scm/define-grob-properties.scm b/scm/define-grob-properties.scm
index 33c21171ac9dcca96c6c2654529af7a94711345e..302f26f1a7c2e473796c1716d44203879048cacf 100644 (file)
--- a/scm/define-grob-properties.scm
+++ b/scm/define-grob-properties.scm
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 ;;;;
 ;;;;  source file of the GNU LilyPond music typesetter
 ;;;; 
-;;;; (c) 1998--2008  Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
+;;;; (c) 1998--2009  Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
 ;;;;                 Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
 
 (define (define-grob-property symbol type? description)
@@ -79,6 +79,14 @@ specifies which beams to make.  @code{0}@tie{}is the central beam,
 @code{1}@tie{}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.")
+     (beamlet-default-length ,pair? "A pair of numbers. The first number
+specifies the default length of a beamlet that sticks out of the left hand
+side of this stem; the second number specifies the default length of the
+beamlet to the right. The actual length of a beamlet is determined by
+taking either the default length or the length specified by
+@code{beamlet-max-length-proportion}, whichever is smaller.")
+     (beamlet-max-length-proportion ,pair? "The maximum length of a beamlet,
+as a proportion of the distance between two adjacent stems.")
      (before-line-breaking ,boolean? "Dummy property, used to trigger
 a callback function.")
      (between-cols ,pair? "Where to attach a loose column to.")