Re: How to get cross-staff beaming? Should be automatic; it's not. Why?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Thanks Aaron.

  The first suggestion seemed to do absolutely nothing to change the
appearance of the beaming (I'm bewildered), but the second suggestion
worked.

Ken

On Sun, Jul 31, 2022 at 7:45 PM Aaron Hill <lilypond@hillvisions.com> wrote:
>
> On 2022-07-31 7:10 pm, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
> >   However, the current incarnation of my Swan Lake harp part (one bar
> > so far), does not have a complete beam (only each triplet has a beam).
> > I thought that this would be automatic.
>
> In 4/4 time, there is a default beam exception for "twelfth" notes.
>
> %%%%
> \version "2.22.0"
>
> \relative c' {
>    \time 2,2 4/4  %% Set desired beat structure and time signature.
>    \set Timing.beamExceptions = #'()  %% Clear default exceptions.
>    \repeat unfold 4 \tuplet 3/2 { d8 e a }
> }
>
> %% Alternately...
>
> \relative c' {
>    \time 2/2
>    \repeat unfold 4 \tuplet 3/2 { d8 e a }
> }
> %%%%
>
>
> -- Aaron Hill