Ruud van Silfhout writes: > I already thought that someting like that was the problem, thats the reason > I posted it on the devel rather that the user list. . So w.r.t this issue > lily is not backwards compatible.
Indeed, this is but one of many non-backward compatibilities. Worse, this is not even forward compatible. Not much attention was paid to this, apparently. > The piece I am working on contains some odd 15 voices or so, so I would > prefer a solution fitting in the \layout section and more pieces coming up. > Is there someone who could make this work? If an example project is needed I > can send one privately. I see two solutions for 2.4, both of which require messing with non-documented internals. One solution is changing the context variable, the other is to make a (override-auto-beam-settings) that works on score level. See below. Jan %% Copy from scm/auto-beam.scm; because not public there #(define (override-property-setting context context-prop setting value) "Like the C++ code that executes \\override, but without type checking. " (ly:context-set-property! context context-prop (cons (cons setting value) (ly:context-property context context-prop)))) %% Copy of override-auto-beam-setting, but apply at Score level iso at Voice #(define-public (score-override-auto-beam-setting setting num den . rest) (ly:export (context-spec-music (make-apply-context (lambda (c) (override-property-setting c 'autoBeamSettings setting (ly:make-moment num den)))) (if (and (pair? rest) (symbol? (car rest))) (car rest) 'Score)))) \layout { \context { \Staff %% fix 1 autoBeamSettings = #(cons (cons '(end * * * *) (ly:make-moment 1 2)) default-auto-beam-settings) } } << \new Staff { \time 6/4 a8 a a b b b a8 a a b b b } \new Staff { a8 a a b b b a8 a a b b b } %% fix 2 #(score-override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * * *) 1 2) >> -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel