On Tuesday, 2 March 1999, John Sankey writes:
> But, Scarlatti has a way of making monkeys of us all! He has quite a
> few passages of alternating 1/8 or 1/16th notes, 2-3 octaves apart,
> played with one hand while the other hand plays legato. These
> passages are noted with beaming on the legato voice, but none on the
> wildly jumping one. This is, of course, the way the notes are
> actually played, not to mention that the score would be totally
> illegible with beaming where the jumping hand crossed the other.
>
> Any thoughts on how to tell autobeaming to leave a section unbeamed,
> other than by turning beaming off and manually doing the whole piece?
> I tried putting [] around single notes, but a 'beam with less than
> two notes' has always crashed Lily during Tex output and it still
> does.
set
\property Voice.beamAuto = "0"
see input/test/auto-beam-override.ly.
Please folks, for (newly added) undocumented features see the input/*
and input/test/* directory.
> Just in passing - it is common to beam triple 8ths in 3's and duple
> 8ths in 4's in the baroque period when they are mixed up together, to
This will be fixed in pl34 or 35, if i understand you correctly, so that
\score{
\notes\relative c''{
c8 c c c
\times 2/3 { c c c c c c}
}
\paper{
% urg, avoid crash
\translator{
\VoiceContext
\remove Tuplet_engraver;
}
}
}
will be beamed in three groups: 4 3 3
> indicate that the duple 8ths are structurally stases, more legato
> than the triple phrases. Triple phrases are not only integral to
> early music, but are more common than duple outside of marches - I
> still think you would be better off using 8t, 16t etc. as durations
> in their own right, rather than providing only the \times construct
> for them. Then, they could have their own autobeam specification in a
> natural way.
Jan.
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