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Is there a reason not to use Completion_heads_engraver all the time oratleast as a default?
I think the expectation is that most composers most of the time do not want notes split up automatically as it probably means a mistake was made when entering the notes. Basically they'll split when they want to. It's just you and I working with generated scores where this other behavior is preferred.
>I am also using a compound metre. Hopefully this will work with that.
I have no idea about that! For me I'm just using the bar lines and automatic breaking more for aesthetic reasons or as a help to the performer to see where they are than I am for any musical reasons. So for me 4/4 is all I'm using. Naively I would assume that it should work for more complex time signatures.
>In one case I have repeating measures of 5/4 + 3/4 + 2/4. I have succeeded
in getting the bar lines printed after 5th and 8th quarter notes in a 10/4time scale by adding a voice with bar lines at those places. May be thereis a different method of achieving this effect.
I'm not quite getting what you're trying to do, do have a picture or some code?