tisimst wrote Tuesday, March 10, 2015 4:52 PM > The other question the OP was asking is can > the group default to have TWO full beams > across the group, ... > I had a look through the IR and couldn't find > anything that says it will only use a SINGLE > beam across the whole group.
The snippet in NR 1.2.4 Beams which shows how to subdivide beams says: "When set, multiple beams will be subdivided at intervals defined by the current value of baseMoment by reducing the multiple beams to just one beam between the sub-groups." But you're right in the sense that there is no accessible property that controls the number of inter-group beams, and there should be, or even better, LilyPond should just do the correct subdivision if subdivideBeams is set. In "Behind Bars", on pages 156-157, Elaine Gould makes it quite explicit that using a single beam to separate groups of four 64th notes is wrong. She says, "the number of beams separating the groups [should be] equal to the duration of the groups they separate". A group of four 64th notes equals a 16th, so two such groups should be separated by a 16th beam, i.e. two beams. Four such groups should have two beams between first and second and between third and fourth groups, and a single beam between second and third. She gives an example showing exactly this. There is an enhancement request for this: see https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2361 Trevor _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user