Re: easier \noBeam syntax

[Joram Berger]

Am 07.11.2012 00:10, schrieb David Kastrup:
> Joram Berger <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Am 06.11.2012 22:10, schrieb David Kastrup:
>>> Joram Berger <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> here is another (probably not so well thought) idea:
>>>>
>>>> Issue: \noBeam is a quite long command if used heavily and for the
>>>> opposite feature [ and ] represent much more convenient solutions.
>>>>
>>>> Possible solution: use X or ; (or any other reasonable token as a
>>>> \noBeam equivalent.
>>>>
>>>> Again, this is just an idea, which might be no good one.
>>>
>>> You know \autoBeamOff ?
>>>
>>
>> I know that.
>>
>> It's no real problem, just wanted to mention it. The idea came up while
>> making a cheat sheet and realizing, that [ and ] have no equally short
>> counterpart.
> 
> Well, either this is due to phrasing patterns leaving isolated unbeamed
> notes in which case beaming the patterns is enough, or you actually have
> situations with several unbeamed notes in a row.  That is almost always
> related to lyrics being reflected in beaming in which case the only safe
> remedy is manually beaming everything since you can't rely on
> autobeaming delivering the same results in all eternity and all styles.
> 
> So the main use case would seem to be a prettier cheat sheet.  Wasting
> symbols or tokens on that seems excessive.
> 

I agree that it would be a waste of tokens.