Re: Acciaccaturas and slashed stems

[Paul Scott]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 07:25:01PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> Gilberto Agostinho <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > But I imagine you meant a single unbeamed note in among other grace
> > notes in a complex situation, as in the piano sonata example you sent,
> > right? So, about it: you are totally right on this one, in this case
> > the autobeaming wouldn't work out well and the user would need to make
> > manual adjustments. But my point is: isn't this is a complex example
> > and the by far the most common is to have same duration grace notes?
> > Also, the user who would type such passage with LilyPond still would
> > need to manually set the beams, so actually it would make little
> > difference for him if autoBeam was on.
> 
> You are presuming that LilyPond has some greedy "autoBeam" setting which
> will be broken by any manual beaming instruction and will exclude single
> notes.  Or that it should have that.

What about an option or some simple code that would turn on autobemaing for 
grace notes?  or maybe code that I could use to cause that?  I have not 
so far ever wanted unbeamed graces.  I would turn on such an option or 
put the code in my common.ily file.

Paul Scott