Re: Documented but unimplemented feature for beam subdivisions?

[Carl Sorensen]

On 3/4/10 8:09 AM, "Mats Bengtsson" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> According to the 2.13 docs, it should work to do something like
> \overrideBeamSettings #'Score #'(4 . 4) #'subdivide #'(((1 . 16) . (2 6
> 10 12)))
> to specify a pattern for beam subdivisions. However, when I tried it,
> nothing happened and as far as I can see from the implementation, all
> subdivide settings are simply ignored.

Unfortunately, that is correct. I had hoped to have 'subdivide implemented
by now, but it is not yet implemented.  I will fix the documentation.

> 
> Also, for the part that works, namely
> \overrideBeamSettings #'Score #'(4 . 4) #'end ...
> I find the documentation in NR 1.2.4 Beams "Setting automatic beam
> behavior" misleading, since it says that
> "Beam type is either a scheme pair indicating the duration of the beam,
> e.g. (1 . 16) ..."
> but as far as I can understand the (1 . 16) does not denote the duration
> of the beam, but rather the duration of the last note of the beam, right?

It denotes the duration of the shortest note in the beam, regardless of
where in the beam that duration occurs.  I will clarify the documentation.

Thanks for your questions.

Carl