Re: Issue 1817 in lilypond: Bug in autobeaming 3/4

[lilypond]

Comment #6 on issue 1817 by address@hidden: Bug in autobeaming 3/4
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1817

I agree with comment 5.  This is unquestionably wrong.  There should never  
be three quavers beamed together in 3/4 time.

Other references allow beaming 4 quavers together in 3/4, so I think there  
is disagreement between Gerou and others.

But the references are united in disallowing a beam that breaks in the  
middle of the measure, which is reserved for 6/8 time (except in special  
cases).

If you want to beam quavers 2 by 2, you should be able to do so just by

\set Timing.beamExceptions = #'()

But this will eliminate the full measure of quavers being beamed together.