Auto-beam in 2.6

[Joe Neeman]

I've had a few problems with auto-beaming in lilypond. Since I found the
autobeaming page in the manual pretty confusing[1], I thought I'd check
here before I filed a bug report. I want 32ed notes to break only every
quarter note.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% This snippet breaks every 8th note
{
\time 2/4
#(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * * *) 1 4)
\repeat unfold 16 a32
}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% This snippet works!
{
\time 2/4
#(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * * *) 1 4)
\set Score.beatLength = #(ly:make-moment 1 2)
\repeat unfold 16 a32
}

But if I use #(ly:make-moment 1 4) then it goes back to breaking on
every 8th note. Can someone explain this to me?

Thanks,
Joe


[1]: If I can figure out how this works, I'd be happy to write a
modified page for your consideration.