Arle Lommel <arle.lom...@gmail.com> writes: > So schrieb David: > >> Either way is acting as it should. >> >> The manual has an index entry "beam, with lyrics" for the chapter >> "Setting automatic beam behavior" but there is no usable reference >> whatsoever in that chapter. I actually find rather little elsewhere >> either, there are mostly just some allusions to manual beaming and >> lyrics that don't make it into a definitive statement about LilyPond's >> behavior rather than a general typesetting practice. >> >> It's sort of an "everyone knows this except the manual" situation >> apparently. > > > Thanks for the explanation, which makes sense. Where should I suggest > that this be made more prominent in the documentation? It think it > ought to be mentioned in the section on Lyrics where slurs are > discussed so that both options are evident to people like me, who dip > in and out of Lilypond on a semi-regular basis but aren’t quite up on > all the details.
As a handwaving guess, where git grep autoBeamOff Documentation spits out material outside of the translations. It's in both the Learning and Notation manual in several places. -- David Kastrup
