Re: Beat grouping and reverting

[Trevor Daniels]

Carl, you wrote Monday, October 27, 2008 12:03 AM
> On 10/26/08 4:44 PM, "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Carl D. Sorensen Sunday, October 26, 2008 9:30 PM
> > > In fact, it may be
> > > possible to greatly reduce (or even eliminate) explicit settings in
> > > scm/auto-beam.scm and replace them with rules from beatGrouping.
> >
> > No, I don't think so.  The rules are beam-duration-dependent;
> > beatGrouping and friends are not.  This is used to good effect
> > in the rules for pretty well all the time-signatures.  So I think
> > we have to retain the rules but without the switch-off-at-any-beat
> > rule.
>
> We could at least eliminate all the rules that are covered by the default
> beatGrouping, and it would make that many fewer rules to revert.
>
> I agree with you about the beam-duration dependent rules -- they need to
> stay to keep the current behavior.

I removed the turn-off end-at-any-beat-feature from
the beam ending rules a few days ago, and have now just
pushed the rules in 6/8, 9/8 and 12/8 which are covered
by the default beatGrouping, leaving just the rules for
1/32nd beams.  If this causes no problems we could, as
you suggest, add further default beatGroupings to
scm/music-functions.scm and remove those rules which
were made redundant by this.  This would leave beam
ending rules just for 1/32 beams and little else, greatly
simplifying the autobeaming (and the docs).

Should I push on with this change?

Trevor