Re: Smarter automatic beam subdivision?

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rutger Hofman" <address@hidden>
To: "lilypond-user" <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2014 11:03 AM
Subject: Smarter automatic beam subdivision?


> Good morning list,
>
> I would love to be able to make 'smart' automatic beam subdivision, so, 
> for example, it automatically subdivides 16th at the quarter, but 32nds or 
> 6/4* 16th etc at the eighths. Is there a way to accomplish that?
>
> Btw, the current syntax to do ad-hoc subdivision by hand is uhm... 
> verbose... I wouldn't mind if the syntax would allow things like:
>
> c32[[ c c c] c[ c c c]]
>
> where the number of non-divided beams would follow The Rules.
>
> Rutger


Have you looked at the section of the NR: "How automatic beaming works"?  I 
think it will allow you to work out how to do what you want.

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Phil Holmes