On 6 April 2016 at 01:51, Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> wrote:

> That would be unnecessary. Better use the beamHalfMeasure context
> property, which is also explained on that docs page.
>
Interesting. In my defence I can only say that this wasn't available back
when I started out with lilypond. But I played around a little with it now,
and even though I can understand the sentiment behind it, the behaviour of
that property seems a bit unconvincing to me. (For starters, it seems it's
just a special case for a group of three quavers at the end of a measure.)
And while it's a pretty exact fit for the original problem, whenever I had
the need to alter the beaming I had to resort to more drastic measures.

Besides all that I was wondering how often the odd half measure beam really
leads to ambiguity between 3/4 and 6/8 time in properly typeset music. (For
me at least that has never been an issue.) Trying to justify a change in
the practice of music typesetting (which as such is neither good nor bad)
by accusing the performing musicians of sloppy thinking seems somewhat
irritating to me...

Sorry for going off topic a bit there, but sometimes my mind just wanders
off..

Best regards,
Martin

-- 
homme, ni présence
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