Re: autobeaming in cadenza

[Carl Sorensen]

On 9/29/10 11:35 AM, "Mark Polesky" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Carl Sorensen wrote:
>> I think that autobeaming in cadenzas should beam according
>> to baseMoment, i.e. all beats should be grouped together
>> in baseMoment units.
> 
> The very concept of beats within a cadenza goes against the
> whole idea of a cadenza in the first place.  I think a
> better system would be to break beams only when the note
> duration changes, and *not* after a dotted note.  But
> there's simply no algorithm that will work in most cases.
> The user will almost always need to do some manual beams.
> 
> One possibility to ease some of the burden for the user
> would be to set up "beaming styles", not unlike the
> accidental styles that we currently have.  So we could have
> \groupBeats and \groupDurations, for example.

\groupBeats would require a dramatically different autobeaming algorithm.

Perhaps the best answer is to have \candezaOn turn off autbeaming.  Since
the cadenza is in free time, perhaps the composer should be responsible for
giving whatever metric hints are desired with the beam by indicating the
beaming manually.

Thanks,

Carl