Re: Vocal slurring and override-auto-beam-setting?

[James E. Bailey]

Am 28.08.2008 um 17:11 schrieb Mike Blackstock:

> Not being a singer, I assumed that vocal music never has beams -

Current style guides indicate that vocal music follows beaming rules  
for instrument music.


> wrong! I see that when notes are slurred, the slurred notes have  
> beams. Is there an easy way to indicate that if notes are within a  
> slur, they should be beamed, otherwise not?

Not that I know of.

> I suspect it can be done with 'override-auto-beam-setting'

Not really, that deals more with setting automatic beam behaviour  
based on the time signature. You're better off just explicitly putting  
in beams with [ ] .And since they'll almost always occur with slurs,  
you'll probably end up with a lot of ([ )].

> Thx and cheers,
> Mike

Hope that helps.