Issue 2246 in lilypond: beaming in 3/4 - a setting to not beam 3 eights against the beat.

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Status: Accepted
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Labels: Type-Enhancement

New issue 2246 by address@hidden: beaming in 3/4 - a setting to not  
beam 3 eights against the beat.
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2246

Take this fragment of music written in 3/4 meter;

\relative c'' {
  \time 3/4
  a4. a8 a a
}

Current Lily beaming is: a4. a8[ a a]
Many engravings have beaming like this.  However, beaming all 3 eights  
together is against the beat, and Ted Ross explicitly forbids such  
beaming: "Do not notate a 3/4 measure that looks like a measure in 6/8  
time.  Flag should be used instead of beam on all 3 notes".  So Ross says  
the beaming should be
a4. a8 a[ a]

This problem is quite similar to issue 2228.  To fix 2228, a setting  
strictBeatBeaming was introduced.  I suggest we should use this setting  
here, too.