Re: Help for \beamExceptions

[David Kastrup]

Richard Shann <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, 2015-09-03 at 10:54 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Richard Shann <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 20:13 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> > And there is a comment somewhere about using | to separate
>> >> something,
>> >> > I guess bars with the same \time signature (or, indeed different
>> >> > ones).
>> >> 
>> >> No, it's always for exactly one time signature, but at the time it is
>> >> called, LilyPond has no idea just how long a bar is and can't count it
>> >> off itself.  So you need to separate rule patterns by |. 
>> >
>> > Ah, in that case I need a way of building up the list of beamExceptions,
>> > so the user can define beaming rules for all the time signature changes
>> > they use in the score.
>> 
>> There are separate commands for defining time-signature-specific
>> exceptions rather than the currently active exception list.
>
> I was just experimenting with something along those lines when your
> email arrived:
>
> #(override-time-signature-setting '(3 . 8) '())
>
>
> I was thinking this might revert the 3/8 rules to the default, but I'm
> not sure I've got it right yet. I got there from Simon Albrecht pointing
> me to

Anything wrong with using \overrideTimeSignatureSettings here?  Cf
<URL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/displaying-rhythms#index-time-signature-default-settings>


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David Kastrup