Re: Disable beaming for single note

[David Kastrup]

Nick Payne <address@hidden> writes:

> I had a couple of instances where I wanted two eighth notes not to be
> beamed. As a quick attempt to avoid having to use \autoBeamOff and
> \autoBeamOn for a couple of notes, I tried putting an empty pair of
> brackets after the first eighth note. This stopped the notes being
> beamed, but it also turned the first stem into a T. I have no idea
> whether this is considered an error on my part or a problem with
> Lilypond. The console log didn't indicate any error in the input:
>
> \version "2.17.12"
>
> \relative c' {
>   c8[] c
> }

As expected, a one-note beam.

Maybe look at
<URL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/beams#manual-beams>

to see how this is done for single notes.

-- 
David Kastrup