Re: Auto beaming

[Benedict Singer]

 Hi,

No, Trevor's solution was the one I needed. I wanted pairs of 8ths beamed 
together, not everything beamed together. Thanks though!

Ben

On Tuesday, March 17, 2009, at 02:49AM, "Craig Bakalian" <address@hidden> wrote:
>Hi,
>       I don't know if you want to do this, but can't you simply use the  
>beaming syntax [ ]
>to handle your requirements.  Like
>
>       c8 [ fis c a c e \bar "|"
>       c8 fis c a c e c d c b \bar "|"
>       c8 d c b c g \bar "|"
>       c8 d c b c g c fis, c' c' \bar "|"
>       c,8 c, c' c'  ]  \bar "|"
>
>would beam all of the above.  But, perhaps you don't want to do it  
>this way?
>
>
>Craig Bakalian
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>
>
>
>On Mar 17, 2009, at 5:22 AM, address@hidden wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm writing some un-metered music, using \cadenzaOn and putting in
>> \bar "|" where I want barlines. However, the music is a lot of 8th and
>> 16th notes, and I'd like them beamed into quarter note groups at all
>> times, i.e. 2 consecutive 8ths beam together, and 4 consecutive 16ths
>> beam together. However, I've been unable to get this behavior to
>> continue past the first 4 8th notes. See below for an example. LSR and
>> the mailing list archives didn't turn up any solution to this, along
>> with the snippets in the manual.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ben
>>
>> \version "2.11.62"
>>
>> \paper {
>>    #(set-paper-size "letter")
>> }
>>
>> notes = \relative c'' {
>>      \clef treble
>>      \key g \major
>>      \cadenzaOn
>>      #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * * *) 1 4)
>>      \set Score.beatLength = #(ly:make-moment 1 4)
>>
>>      c8 fis c a c e \bar "|"
>>      c8 fis c a c e c d c b \bar "|"
>>      c8 d c b c g \bar "|"
>>      c8 d c b c g c fis, c' c' \bar "|"
>>      c,8 c, c' c' \bar "|"
>>      c2 r4 \bar "|"
>>      c,16 fis fis fis c a a a c e e e \bar "|"
>>      fis16 c fis fis a, c a a e' c e e d c d d b c b b \bar "|"
>>      
>>      \bar "|."
>> }
>>
>> \score {
>>      \new Staff << \notes >>
>>      \layout { }
>>      \midi { }
>> }
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