Re: Manual beaming after \override

[Mats Bengtsson]

The [ belongs to the note that starts the beam, whereas the \override 
command is inserted between notes, so the correct syntax is
d8[ \override NoteHead #'style = #'cross d] ~ d4

   /Mats

Michael Käppler wrote:
> Hi all,
> can somebody explain, why the following doesn't work with manual 
> beaming, but with autobeaming?
>
> \version "2.13.4"
>
> \relative c' {
> \time 2/4
> d8 \override NoteHead #'style = #'cross d ~ d4 % This works fine
> % \autoBeamOff
> % d8 \override NoteHead #'style = #'cross [d] ~ d4
> }
>
> The second results in a: "syntax error, unexpected '['" message.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
>
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