Re: Help for \beamExceptions

[David Kastrup]

Richard Shann <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, 2015-09-04 at 18:56 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Richard Shann <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > I seem to have run into a snag with re-writing
>> > default-time-signature-settings, it works ok if there was previously a
>> > rule for a time signature, but adding a rule for one (such as 6/8) which
>> > has none doesn't result in the beaming pattern being used. Here is a
>> > minimal example. The first bar shows the pattern desired, and this is
>> > put into the value for 'beamExceptions in the 6/8 alist, but the second
>> > bar is not then beamed to follow that pattern.
>> 
>> That's likely because 6/8 triggers a special case relying on the context
>> property
>> 
>>      (beamHalfMeasure ,boolean? "Whether to allow a beam to begin
>> halfway through the measure in triple time, which could look like 6/8.")
>
> It sounds like I am tackling this at too low a level then. Is there a
> more user-accessible way of setting the beaming rules for an entire
> score containing many movements with a variety of time signatures?

Just unset the darn property if you don't want its effect.  At any rate,
I don't understand why you are not using \overrideTimeSignatureSettings
to begin with rather than meddling with the alists used internally.

-- 
David Kastrup