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Re: auto-beaming


From: Trevor Daniels
Subject: Re: auto-beaming
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:07:15 -0000


M Watts wrote Saturday, March 21, 2009 6:57 AM


Mats Bengtsson wrote:
Trevor Daniels wrote:
Unfortunately, this will also subdivide 16th beams too. This is what I meant by "not quite possible". You would need to turn subdivideBeams on and off as required.
Should we turn this into feature request to make the automatic subdivision of beams even more flexible, with separate rules for different note lengths,

That could be very handy -- a case in point is Karg-Elert's Chacconne, op. 153, no. 12, one bar before section 19, where there's a bar of 3/4 time filled with 24 32nd notes, subdivided at every level. What I mean is, there are 4 32nd notes, joined with 3 beams (as normal); then every two lots of 4 32nds are join by 2 beams, and the whole lot is joined by one beam.

or would the resulting scheme get too messy to use and implement?

Haven't the foggiest :)

One way, which would not be messy, would be to use
the beam-ending rules as they stand.  What I mean is,
with subdivideBeams off break the beams completely
at the end-points specified by the beam-ending rules;
with subdivideBeams on break only those beams with
durations shorter than the one specified in the
rule, leaving the longer duration beams to continue,
rather than breaking all beams except 8th beams.

Would this be an improvement?

Trevor







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