What does \consistsend do? I'm a little confused by behavior of property assignments. \score{ \notes{ \property Voice.beamAuto = 0 < \relative c' \context Voice = foo { a8 b c b b b b b b b b b b b b b b } \relative c'' { a8 b c b b b b b b b b b b b b b b } > } \paper{ indent = -1.;} } What if I want to turn off all autobeaming? I now need an explicit statement for every Voice context (except the implicitly generated ones)? The above produces autobeaming in the top voice but not the bottom voice. I'm having a hard time reconciling the description of how autobeaming works with the observed behavior. Running this through 1.1.41 got me a segfault: \score{ \notes{ \time 13/8; % \property Voice.beamAutoBegin = "1/8" % \property Voice.beamAutoEnd = "3/8" \property Voice.beamAutoEnd = "10/8" \property Voice."beamAutoEnd_16" = "1/8" \property Voice.beamAutoBegin = "1/4" a8 a a a16 a16 a16 a16 a16 a16 a8 a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a8 a8 a8 a8 a8 a a a a a a a a } \paper{ linewidth = -1.;} } So I tried this: \score{ \notes{ \time 4/8; \property Voice.beamAutoEnd = "1/2" \property Voice."beamAutoEnd_16" = "1/8" \property Voice."beamAutoEnd_8" = "1/2" a8 a a a16 a16 a16 a16 a16 a16 a8 a a a a a } \paper{ linewidth = -1.;} } I expect that beams containing only 8th notes should always occupy the whole measure. Beams containing a 16th note should be able to stop every beat. So there are two beamings consistent with this for the first measure: Either I should get ------------- | | | |--| | | | | | x x x x x or I should get the first 3 8th notes separate, and the pair of 16th notes beamed together. I get ------ ---- | | | |--| | | | | | x x x x x instead. But beams for 8th notes aren't supposed to stop on the 3rd beat in the measure. What is happening?