Nightingale uses a default setting for beam angles which is 25% of the interval between the notes being beamed. This setting can be easily adjusted in the Preferences command (under the File menu) to any percentage.
25% is a standard choice used by many professional engravers, but if you are printing on a 300 dpi PostScript printer, you may feel dissatisfied with the jagged look of the beams when printed. A setting of 12% is used as the default by several other notation programs (i.e. Finale) in order to partially smooth out the jaggedness in printing, though this produces a more extreme beam angle than is usually desired.
To change the default beam angles used in Nightingale:
1) Go to the File menu
2) Select the Preferences command
3) Choose Engraver Preferences from the Popup menu
4) Set the Relative Beam Slope to a new number (between zero and 100%)
