Phil, That was what I found :-) But unless I'm mistaken, one must use those directives for *every* time signature change. Thus if I have shifting ?/4 meters, every time the meter changes I have to add the directives because each ?/4 meter requires a different beat grouping. I know I can create a Variable and use those in place of time signatures. I was hoping that there might be a more elegant way at a higher level that didn't require as much work :-)
Thanks for your quick reply! It is appreciated. Guy Guy Stalnaker jimmyg...@gmail.com On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Phil Burfitt <phil.burf...@talktalk.net> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Guy Stalnaker" <jimmyg...@gmail.com> > To: "lilypond-user Mailinglist" <lilypond-user@gnu.org> > Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2014 10:39 PM > Subject: Beaming on the quarter note > > >> All, >> >> I've done the search and found much of relevance, but nothing that >> gives me what I want. >> >> I'd like beaming restricted to quarter-note groups for all meters I >> may use in a score (4/4, 3/4, 5/4, 6/4). I'm not using triple meters >> in this work so such is irrelevant to my purpose. >> >> What's happening is that the automatic beaming is beaming sets of 4 >> eighth-notes in 4/4 measures, and 6 eight-notes in 3/4 meaures if all >> the notes in them are eighth-notes. This may be fine for >> instrumentalists, but it is not fine for choral pieces where beaming >> by beat pulse is my preference. >> >> Is there a method short of manual beaming to tell Lilypond to group >> beaming by quarter notes always no matter the ?/4 time? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Guy Stalnaker >> jimmyg...@gmail.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lilypond-user mailing list >> lilypond-user@gnu.org >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > > > > Guy, > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/beams#setting-automatic-beam-behavior > > Also, the beatStructure can be overidden in the \time command itself by > supplying it as the optional first argument... > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/displaying-rhythms#time-signature > > > hth. > Phil. > > > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user