Re: Beaming rules may cause oddness when using hideNotes

[Carl Sorensen]

On 3/18/11 12:50 PM, "Valentin Villenave" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Greetings everybody,
> 
> I've just stumbled upon the following piece of code, and it took me a
> while to understand what was going wrong (although, granted, I should
> know better).
> 
> \new Staff <<
>   \new Voice { \voiceOne
>     \set tieWaitForNote = ##t
>     c''16~ b''~ <c'' b''>8~ b''2.
>   }
>   \new Voice { \voiceTwo
>     s8
>     \hideNotes
>     c''~
>     \unHideNotes
>     c''8. d''16 c''2
>   }
>>> 
> 
> Printed scores usually use 2+2 beaming for 4/4 time signatures, but
> they revert to 4+4+4+4 whenever there's a silence or a trick such as
> the one above. In this particular case, the (attached) output is
> clearly not something one would expect to happen by default; that
> being said, I'm not sure the beaming rules can be made more
> intelligent (see #638, for example). Perhaps it's just something to
> document? (Or maybe that's just me ;)


What would you like it to look like?  Can you manually beam it for us?

Thanks,

Carl