Re: Trying to figure out a beat grouping

[Mats Bengtsson]

I guess you still want

 ____________
|   |   |   | 
|   |   |   | 
|   |   |   | 
O   O   O   O  


to stay beamed, right? Otherwise, it would be simple to break all the 
beams after 2 eight notes.

   /Mats

Cameron Horsburgh wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm having trouble trying to modify the automatic beaming for a piece
> I'm working on. This piece has many examples of this figure in 4/4 time:
>
> a8 a a a16 a
>
> I would like the beaming to be:
>
> a8[ a] a[ a16 a]
>
>   ___     _______
>  |   |   |   |___|
>  |   |   |   |   |
>  |   |   |   |   |
> O   O   O   O   O
>
>
> but the default is
>
> a8[ a a a16 a]
>
>   _______________
>  |   |   |   |___|
>  |   |   |   |   |
>  |   |   |   |   |
> O   O   O   O   O
>
>
> I can't figure out how to get my desired beaming. How do I tell the
> beam engraver to look for semiquavers at the end of beat two to decide
> whether or not to put a beam between between beats one and two?
>
>  If the semiquavers came at the end of beat one it probably wouldn't
> be that hard. Is this the sort of thing the 'begin' beam-limit type
> was intended for?
>   

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