Re: default beaming

[Carl Sorensen]

On 3/3/10 9:15 AM, "Mats Bengtsson" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Ole Schmidt wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> When I write  \times 2/3 { c8 c16 c8. } the second beam of the sixteenth note
>> goes to the left which in my opinion is wrong.
>> Am I missing something or do I have to overwrite the default settings? (if
>> yes, how can I do that permanently for the whole score?)
>>  
> 
> This is described in the manual, at
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/beams#Beams
> (note that this has changed from version 2.12):
> 
> \version "2.13.14"
> \relative c'{
> \set subdivideBeams = ##t
> \overrideBeamSettings #'Score #'(4 . 4) #'end #'((* . (3 6 9 12)))
> \set beatLength = #(ly:make-moment 1 12)
> \times 2/3 { c8 c16 c8. }
> }

If I understand correctly, this works for triplets, but breaks things for
standard eighth notes.

The beamlet pointing in the wrong direction on triplets is one of our
earliest bugs -- issue 11.

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=11

Thanks,

Carl