On 4 Mar 2008, at 13:20, Hugo Flordal wrote:
The problem is that you want to beam differently than implied by the time signature you want to write. So you want to beam in what might be described as 8 = (1+1)+(1+1)+(1+1)+(1+1), whereas the common interpretation of 4 is (1+1)+(1+1) or perhaps 1+1+1+1. If taken literally, your beaming implies that the 4/4 has one primary accent, and on the 1/4s have secondary accents. Then each 1/4 has a yet subordinate accent on the second 1/8 of it. And LilyPond does not a dedicated function doing just that, though it might be possible to do write one.
Thank you for the reply, but I'm not sure I get it... Are you saying (indirectly) that when I set the beatLength to 1/8, I implicitly change the timing to 8/8? Should I then use 8/8 beaming rules? Is that why my 4/4 auto-beam rules do not work but the */* rules do?
No. LilyPond currently only has ready-made high-level functions for some standard situations, where time signature and beaming agree. In other cases one will have to use low level functions, as I showed you.
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