breaking beams into flags

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> It is a serious limitation that it is so hard to specify breakpoints of beams.
> I would like a command to say that "no beams can cross this point".
> Or at least that [c8] results in a flagged c instead of something unusable (c
> wih neither beam nor flag).
> Attached an example. It is hopefully easy to see that the alto part is ugly in
> measures 2 and 4 (the beam should be broken corresponding to the other 2
> voices) - and currently I know no easy solution. I.e. the only solution is to
> temporarily setting noAutoBeaming=##t which is far too cumbersome.

The patch I just sent you is admittedly a little kludgy, for it
generates two warnings for every beam you want.  A slightly more
elegant approach is to have the auto-beam-engraver respond to (say) a
Beam_request that has span_dir () set to 0, so that it will kill any
pending beams in that case.

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Han-Wen Nienhuys   |   address@hidden    | http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/