Hi folks, I've had a problem with some auto beaming, and after some discussion on -user[1] I believe it's a limitation with LilyPond's autobeaming mechanism. Here's my problem:
I am setting a piece in 4/4 that has many examples of the figure a8 a a a16 a beginning on either the first or third beats of the bar. The beaming LilyPond gives me is a8[ a a a16 a] when I would prefer a[8 a] a[ a16 a] I had a go at writing a rule to get this behaviour but there doesn't sem to be any way of doing it. This was confirmed by Trevor Daniels in the discussion on -user. This raises two questions: first, what should the default beaming be in this case? I don't see a lot of the one that LilyPond generates, and I find it reasonably hard to sight-read. Most scores I see seem to use the one I am trying to get. Second, the autobeaming mechanism should allow this sort of construct. The problem is that the beaming between the second and third notes depends on the length of the fourth and fifth notes. Or, to quote Trevor, You need some sort of back-tracking so that when the 16th notes were found the beaming was restarted using a different set of rules. I imagine the first issue (if it is an issue) would depend on the second issue being fixed, and I presume that would be a rather difficult problem to solve. Still, if they are legitimate problems I think they rate a mention in the bug tracker. Cheers, Footnotes: [1] The discussion starts at http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-u...@gnu.org/msg46157.html -- Cameron Horsburgh Blog: http://spiritcry.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
