Re: Four eighth note beamed when first eighth note looks like a half note

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 13/10/2022 à 22:31, Knute Snortum a écrit :
> I have a situation that seems like it would be straightforward.  I
> want four eighth notes beamed with the first eighth looking like a
> half note.  I thought I could just do this:
>
> { b2*1/4[ b'8 b' b'] }
>
> But that code doesn't attach the beam to the first note and produces
> two warnings:
>
> warning: stem does not fit in beam
> warning: beam was started here
>
> What am I doing wrong?



This is working as expected. The principle of the *x/y modifiers
is that they change the duration without changing anything else
to the notation. From the notation point of view, you're trying
to beam a half note, which can't be done.

Aaron already gave the solution.

Cheers,
Jean