Reilly Farrell <reillycfarr...@gmail.com> writes:

> Thank you for your responses.  In this case, we're looking to set up
> beaming rules that LilyPond does not follow by default (such as grouping
> consecutive eighth notes in pairs of two when in 4/4 time, rather than
> groups of four).
>
> David, your solution seems just like what we need based on what I've read
> in the documentation.  Right now, though, I'm receiving the following error
> message:
>
> error: wrong type for argument 3.  Expecting list, found 2
>
>     2,
>
>       2,2,2 % beatStructure
>
> ../../../road-map-score-block.ily:20:6: error: syntax error, unexpected ','
>
>     2
>
>      ,2,2,2 % beatStructure
> etc.
>
> Is there something I've overlooked in the formatting?

>> %% Beam crochets separately.
>> %% 2.18.2 can't parse this format for beatStructure

[...]

>> %% Beam compound dotted crochets separately.
>> %% 2.18.2 can't parse this format for beatStructure

You need a newer version of LilyPond, or you need to write

    2,2,2,2

as
    #'(2 2 2 2)

instead.

-- 
David Kastrup

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