hello list, i'm a beginner at lilypond, i know enough to enter music in a simple way. i still don't know enough of the language to try elaborate tweaks, but i find that usually lilypond is smart enough to produce good output for music that's not too complex.
but i suspect that automatic beaming is not working correctly in certain cases involving tuplets. i include a short snippet with the corresponding image. i'm using a recently compiled 2.11.41 on linux. in 4/4 time signature, eight notes are beamed every 4 notes (i. e. into whole notes, m.1 in the example), which is of course correct; sixteenth notes are also correctly beamed every 4 notes into quarter notes (m.2). but 16th notes quintuplets and sextuplets are beamed into whole notes, even if that means including a pair of eight notes (m3 and m4). the same with 32nd septuplets (m5). normal 32nd notes, on the other hand, are beamed every 4 notes into eight notes, while i find that beaming every 8 notes is more standard. i find other anomalies, like the 8th notes quintuplet beamed together with the preceding 8th notes (m6). as a beginner, i don't know if these are bugs, my mistakes, or if that is the intended behavior. in the last case, could i ask the authors to reconsider the criteria used for automatic beaming? i know that you can adjust the beaming manually, or even change the automatic beam behavior globally. but i think that the defaults should be chosen in a way that requires as little manual tweaks as possible. thank you for your attention. best, lj
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