Re: autobeaming over rests,Re: autobeaming over rests

[Lukas-Fabian Moser]

Am 29.01.23 um 17:54 schrieb David Kastrup:
> Valentin Petzel <valentin@petzel.at> writes:
>
> > Hello David,
> >
> > in most cases definitely, but I suppose there might be some cases in
> > say piano music where something like this would make sense.
> I'd say that proportion seems low enough that providing automatisms for
> it is more likely to cause confusion than help.

I disagree.

Of course the feature is never actually _needed_ as it only saves a 
couple of [ ] signs. But the example I gave in my earlier mail to Werner 
is fairly common, actually - I attach some bars from Bach's 
Ratswahlkantate BWV 29, and there are much more of these in the violin 
original from BWV 1006. I'd wager it's fairly standard notation to have 
beams over skips in piano music, actually.

I don't quite see how the existence of a context property (switched off 
by default) enabling non-ubiquitous, but established notation could 
cause confusion. And after all, I think

c'8[ s s d']

without a second voice in between isn't that much more confusing than 
without the beam.

Lukas

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