On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 10:40 AM Lukas-Fabian Moser <[email protected]> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> it has bothered me for some time now that if, at some individual point in
> a piece, I'm not satisfied with LilyPond's beaming decisions, I have to
> resort to specifying the full beams manually.
>
> Example: If for some reason, the manuscript I'm copying has exceptional
> beams of 4+2+2 instead of the usual 4+4 as in the second bar of
>
> [image: grafik]
>
> from Scarlatti's Partimenti (and I want to reproduce that beaming
> faithfully), I have do to:
>
> c8 c' b a e[ e'] cis'[ d']
>
> So basically I have to enter redundant information: I have to tell
> LilyPond to
>
> 1) start a beam on e,
> 2) end a beam on e',
> 3) start another beam on cis',
> 4) end that beam on d'.
>
I may be misinterpreting you but I can reproduce the desired beaming with:
%%%
\version "2.24.4"
{
\clef bass
c8 c' b a e e' cis'[ d']
}
%%%
--
Knute Snortum
