Re: Limitation with beat grouping

[Patrick McCarty]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Cameron Horsburgh <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I've also just noticed another thing: the figure
>
>  a8 a16 a16 a8 a16 a6
>
> is rendered
>
>  a8[ a16 a16] a8[ a16 a6]
>
> which is my preferred option. In fact, I would prefer everything to be
> broken to one beat groups *except* for the special case of four
> quavers which can appear as one group. It might be easier to write a
> rule for that and manually beam the four quaver figure which is far
> less common in my score.

I agree.  This example highlights the issue very clearly:

\relative c'' {
  a16 a a8 a a
  a8 a16 a a8 a
  a8 a a16 a a8
  a8 a a a16 a  % beaming is different
}


-Patrick