beaming

[Josh Parmenter]

Hi all... I am trying to understand the Beam #'beaming property, and can't seem to figure out the syntax to override the settings. As a short example, what I would like to do is tell the middle beam not to draw. None of these syntaxes throws an error, but none seems to change any settings. Any suggestions / examples? Thanks for you help.

Josh

%% SuperCollider output from Sat Sep 13 21:16:43 2008

\layout {

  #'ragged-right ##t

}

\include "english.ly"

%Voice0

flute = \new Voice = "flute" {

%  \override Voice.Beam #'beaming = #'((0 . #t) (1 . #f) (2 . #t))

%  \override Voice.Beam #'beaming = #'((0 1 2) . (#t #f #t)) 

%  \override Voice.Beam #'beaming #'(0 1 2) = #'(#t #f #t)

%  \override Voice.Beam #'beaming #'1 = ##f

d'64 [

e'64

f'64

g'64

a'64

bf'64 

cs''64 

d''64]

}

\score {

<<

\new Staff = "flute" <<

\clef treble

\time 4/4

\key d \minor

\flute

>>

>>

}

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