Re: Autobeaming with subdivision in 4/4

[Hans Aberg]

On 4 Mar 2008, at 21:55, Hugo Flordal wrote:

> > 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.

> Well, believe it or not, it _does_ work "as it should" when
> I change the rules to
>
>   #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 8 8) 1 4 'Voice)
>   #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 8 8) 1 2 'Voice)
>   #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 8 8) 3 4 'Voice)
>
> That is to say, 8/8 instead of 4/4. But the timing is still
> unchanged, i.e. 4/4, just like I wanted it. (I have only
> tried it for the example that I posted originally, perhaps
> this is a freak example, I'll experiment more later.)

Somebody else has to join in, explaining how LilyPond works. But I  
think the 8 8 patterns above is looked up by the \time 8/8. The  
numbers followed are just treated as rational numbers for time.

  Hans Åberg