Thank you for the clarification! -- Knute Snortum
On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 3:05 AM Jean Abou Samra <j...@abou-samra.fr> wrote: > > Le 13/10/2022 à 22:31, Knute Snortum a écrit : > > I have a situation that seems like it would be straightforward. I > > want four eighth notes beamed with the first eighth looking like a > > half note. I thought I could just do this: > > > > { b2*1/4[ b'8 b' b'] } > > > > But that code doesn't attach the beam to the first note and produces > > two warnings: > > > > warning: stem does not fit in beam > > warning: beam was started here > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > > > This is working as expected. The principle of the *x/y modifiers > is that they change the duration without changing anything else > to the notation. From the notation point of view, you're trying > to beam a half note, which can't be done. > > Aaron already gave the solution. > > Cheers, > Jean >