Re: Beaming rules in 2.13.4

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Neil,

> Really, this makes no sense; any musician coming across such beaming
> would assume there's special emphasis being placed on the beaming
> division (e.g., for stress or phrasing purposes).

+1

> I suppose it depends on what the consensus is among users as to
> whether we should retain what might be deemed old-fashioned features
> (I'm thinking also of the defaults for 4/4 and 2/2: I'm sure modern
> practice whould have us all using numerical time signatures).

Since it's easy enough to include a set of \override-s to "modernize"  
any old-fashioned defaults, why not just include such a file in the  
distro?
[As for my personal opinion... I think Lilypond's default output  
should correspond to modern practice.]

Cheers,
Kieren.