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Re: Changing autobeaming for 4/4 time
From: |
Patrick McCarty |
Subject: |
Re: Changing autobeaming for 4/4 time |
Date: |
Sat, 8 Aug 2009 19:36:23 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) |
On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 07:21:42PM -0700, Patrick McCarty wrote:
>
> However, one of the most common complaints we've had is about the
> default groupings for 4/4 time. Let me outline the evolution that
> has taken place:
>
> 1) 2.12.3
> - 4 eighth notes that span from beat 1 through beat 2 (or from
> beat 3 through beat 4) are beamed by default. There was an
> inconsistency though, which is outlined in Trevor's commit
> description for b5abcaaf9f51f9b710e8599b7511c1f396980a50.
>
> 2) 2.13.0
> - The rule for beaming 4 eighth notes was scrapped in the
> previously mentioned commit; the beaming for these patterns
> then defaulted to groups of 2.
>
> 3) 2.13.4 (current git)
> - Groups of 4 eighth notes are beamed once again, but if
> some or all of these eighth notes are subdivided into
> sixteenth notes, all of the notes are still beamed together.
> This is different from the current behavior in 2.12.
>
>
> The pre-2.13 version of the autobeaming code required a workaround to
> achieve the behavior of 1). But now, no workarounds are required.
> IMO, we should reinstate the behavior of 1).
Hmm, I just realized that the inconsistency still exists, even with my
patch. Here's an example:
\relative c'' {
a8 a a a
a8 a a a
a16 a a8 a a
a8 a16 a a8 a
a8 a a16 a a8
a8 a a a16 a % beaming is different
}
-Patrick
- Changing autobeaming for 4/4 time, Patrick McCarty, 2009/08/08
- Re: Changing autobeaming for 4/4 time,
Patrick McCarty <=
- Re: Changing autobeaming for 4/4 time, Trevor Daniels, 2009/08/09
- Re: Changing autobeaming for 4/4 time, Carl Sorensen, 2009/08/09
- Re: Changing autobeaming for 4/4 time, Trevor Daniels, 2009/08/09
- Re: Changing autobeaming for 4/4 time, Patrick McCarty, 2009/08/09
- Re: Changing autobeaming for 4/4 time, Neil Puttock, 2009/08/09
- Re: Changing autobeaming for 4/4 time, Trevor Daniels, 2009/08/10
- Re: Changing autobeaming for 4/4 time, Trevor Daniels, 2009/08/10
- Re: Changing autobeaming for 4/4 time, Carl Sorensen, 2009/08/10
- Re: Changing autobeaming for 4/4 time, Trevor Daniels, 2009/08/10
- Re: Changing autobeaming for 4/4 time, Carl Sorensen, 2009/08/10