Re: 3-8th notes, the first one by itself; two questions; what is this called and how to do it?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi David;

  Thank you so much for the elaboration.

Ken

On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 7:25 PM David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk>
wrote:

> On Thu 21 Nov 2024 at 18:09:35 (-0800), Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
> > Thanks, David.
> >
> > I think I finally found the answer in the manual (see attached
> screenshot).
> >
> > \set Timing.beamHalfMeasure = ##f
>
> That's certainly more compact, but I've not used it because I'm more
> interested in avoiding long "instrumentalist" beams in favour of
> shorter ones, even with half-note beats, because I set vocal music.
>
> (In the attachment, \score makes a \layout local, so that exx. 1 and 3
> don't see them. Compound time is unaffected, because the \layout time
> signatures never have 8 in the denominator, so no match.)
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>