Re: use of set Timing.measurePosition is disrupting automatic beaming

[Flaming Hakama by Elaine]

> Hallo,
>
> I am learning how to write bagpipe tunes with Lilypond. Bagpipe tunes
> are usually in parts with a partial measure at the start and end of
> each part. In order to avoid the warnings about use of "\partial"
> within the body of the score I am trying to use "\set
> Timing.measurePosition = #(ly:make-moment -3/8)".

As of version 2.19.12, \partial is allowed in mid-measure.

> My problem is that this command seems to disrupt the automatic
> beaming: the half measure before the command is always printed as
> individual notes. In the attached fragment the first one and a half
> measures are correctly beamed but then the last half bar has no
> beaming. What am I doing wrong?

An upgrade to a current developer version might be worth considering
(though I think the last few versions had various problems).  I'm not
sure this will help with the autobeam problem, but once you are using a
version similar to that of the developers, the chances for them being
able to offer good advice and/or reproduce problems are better.

--
David Kastrup

I have never upgraded past 2.19.15 because on mac they get like molasses after that point.

In any case, when I try an essential version of your code, I don't need to fiddle with Timing.measurePosition.  And there are no beaming problems that I can see.

If you put the repeat within a \repeat command, you don't need to specify the repeat barlines. 

Since your barline specification indicated you wanted a second repeated section, I added a second repeat and some more notes to demonstrate that.

\version "2.19.15"

{
    \time 2/4

    \repeat volta 2 {
        \partial 8 e8
        a16. a32 a16. b32     b32 a16. b32 d16.
        e16. a32 a32 a16.          b16. e32 e32 g16.
        a4                                   a8 
    }

    \repeat volta 2 {
        g8 2 4.
    }
}

HTH,

David Elaine Alt

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