Re: Help for \beamExceptions

[David Kastrup]

Richard Shann <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, 2015-09-04 at 20:20 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Richard Shann <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > Please correct me if I am wrong, but at the moment I don't know how a
>> > user can place a something at the top of a LilyPond file that will
>> > result in a particular beaming rule being applied whenever they use a
>> > particular time signature.
>> 
>> \layout {
>>    \overrideTimeSignatureSettings ...
>> }
>> 
>
> Thank you, that was the bit that is missing from the page you referred
> to. I suggest that this text from that page:
>
> Alternatively, the default values of all these time-signature-based
> variables, including baseMoment and beamExceptions, can be set together.
> The values can be set independently for several different time
> signatures. The new values take effect when a subsequent \time command
> with the same value of the time signature is executed: 
>
>
> should become
>
> Alternatively, the default values of all these time-signature-based
> variables, including baseMoment and beamExceptions, can be set together.
> The values can be set independently for several different time
> signatures. This can be done in a \layout {} block when it affects all
> the passages with the specified time signature in the score block it is
> placed in (or all the score blocks if the layout block is at the top
> level). Or if placed in the music, the new values take effect when a
> subsequent \time command with the same value of the time signature is
> executed and affects only the staff in which it is placed:

But that's the same with every single context property setting command.

-- 
David Kastrup