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[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Subject: beam direction problem
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> With
> 
> \time 6/8 [ c16 c c c8 c16 ]
> 
> I get
> 
> +--+--+--+---+
> +--+  +- |  -+
> |  |  |  |   |
> |  |  |  |   |
> 
> 
> instead of the desired
> 
> +--+--+--+---+
> +--+--+  |  -+
> |  |  |  |   |

> How do I correct this?

I assume that you know about the manual override. (\property
stem{Left,Right}BeamSomethingICantRemember (see manual) )

By default LilyPond tries to "split" beams at points that have lowest
denomintor (in this case 1/4 gets precedence over 3/8).

A better solution is to have the initial split be tunable to allow
ternary split points.  This should not be a hard hack to do.  Look at
beaming.cc -- the code is not  complicated.


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