Re: setting beams for "odd" time signatures

[Mats Bengtsson]

John Mandereau wrote:

> Adam Good wrote:
>  
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > i would love some help with this!
> >
> > I'm trying to set the beams in a piece with a 12/8 time signature so 
> > that I don't have to manually put in " [ ] " brackets around note 
> > entries.
> >
> > the 8th notes in the 12 is grouped like:
> > 3 4 3 2
> >
> > so, in other words, rather than have to put in brackets like:
> > d8 e e e4 b'8 [a] g [fis g] e4
> >
> > i just wanna type:
> > d8 e e e4 b'8 a g fis g e4
> >
> > make sense?
> >
> >    
>
> It's explained in the manual ; see Basic notation -> Staff notation ->
> 6.3.3 Time signature
>  
No, not in that section but in the section on "Setting
automatic beam behavior". Try something like:

#(override-auto-beam-setting '(end 1 8 12 8) 3 8)
#(override-auto-beam-setting '(end 1 8 12 8) 7 8)
#(override-auto-beam-setting '(end 1 8 12 8) 10 8)

  /Mats