Re: doc work

[Jonathan Kulp]

I've had vocal compositions published by G. Schirmer and Les Productions 
D'Oz (Quebec) and in both cases they used beams on 8th and 16th notes. 
I don't know if every publishing house does it this way, but I 
personally would prefer to have autobeaming turned *on* by default.  It 
could be turned off again if someone were engraving an older score and 
wanted it to look like the original.

Jonathan

> > Finally:
> >     1. Modern practice for vocal music engraving is to ALWAYS beam 
> > eighth notes; and,
> >     2. Including \autoBeamOff in these "simple" templates might be 
> > confusing.
> >
> > Therefore, I think we should leave \autoBeamOff out of the mix, and 
> > either put a note to the effect of "for typesetting older vocal music, 
> > use \autoBeamOff" or (better yet, IMO) leave it for the vocal music 
> > section proper.
> I would have to go home and look into my music engraving handbook to 
> verify your claims. However, I know that several people on the mailing 
> list have claimed that beaming often is used in vocal music to denote 
> melismata. This is also what LilyPond does for all manually entered beams.
>
> I hope you compare the templates with what the LM and NR (at least the 
> sections that have been updated) have to say.
>
>    /Mats
>
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