Re: Feature request

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
To: "Werner LEMBERG" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: Feature request


> Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > > >   \beaming { c8[ c] c r c[ c c c] }
> > >
> > > Ouch.  Of course.
> > >
> > > > but yes, that would be great.
> >
> > This could probably be
> >
> >   \beaming {8[ 8] 8 8 8[ 8 8 8] }
>
> Uh no.  You need the rest, or you need to write something like
> \beaming {4 8[ 8] 8[ 8 8 8]}

Don't think so.  With this command, it would seem that the rule is "delete 
all previous autobeaming rules and only autobeam in the pattern set with 
manual beams here".  Then you need neither the rest or the crochet.

> And where the overrides can be used, the meter might not be known yet,
> so one needs to write something like
> \beaming 4/4 { ... }
> (somewhat redundant) and/or require that the argument consists of
> whole bars separated by bar checks.

Again, with the suggestion above, this is not needed.  This part of the rule 
is that the bracketed note lengths must form a complete bar in the current 
time signature.  If not, an error is thrown.

> It is probably easiest to require the time specification always (it is
> needed for setting baseMoment and figuring out measureLength): that way
> the chance for users to mess up once they have LilyPond stop complaining
> is minimized.


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Phil Holmes