Vaughan McAlley wrote Monday, September 24, 2012 10:08 AM > Specifically, the pattern of eight eighths triggers a beamException > that overrides what you’re trying to do. I’ve found that adding > > \set Timing.beamExceptions = #'() > > ...before doing anything to do with beaming makes everything a whole lot > easier.
Indeed. The documentation for 2.16 and 2.17 has been changed to try to make this more obvious. See Setting automatic beam behaviour in http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/beams Trevor _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user