Re: wrong beamlet direction in 6/8 and 3/4 measure for dotted quaver and semiquavers

[Carl Sorensen]

On 1/15/12 6:04 PM, "Carl Sorensen" <address@hidden> wrote:

>On 1/15/12 3:06 PM, "Janek Warchoł" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>2012/1/15 Martin Straeten <address@hidden>:
>>>> I'm not top posting.
>>> in 6/8 an 3/4 measure the beamlet of the last/first semiwaver
>>> points to the dotted quaver.
>>>
>>> semiquavers should be beamed together
>>
>>I may be wrong, but i don't agree.  Beaming them together would be
>>against the rhythmical subdivision in 6/8 and 3/4 meters.
>>
>
>I agree with Martin. One of the important things to recognize (which
>LilyPond doesn't do yet in the beaming pattern) is that complex meters
>(like 3/4 and 6/8) have a fundamental beat unit of 3, and so the beaming
>that is chosen is wrong.
>
>The fundamental unit of 6/8 is not 1/8, but 3/8.  6/8 is two groups of
>3/8.  The division at half of the 3/8 group is a more important division
>than the division at 1/3 of the 3/8 group, so the beaming should reflect
>that division.
>
>In the old code, this was handled by trying to avoid "sticking out" flags.
> That was tossed in order to recognize beat divisions, and the beat
>divisions work properly in simple meter, but not it complex meter.
>
>Please make this a regression, with a title that says "Beamlet orientation
>is wrong in complex meters".
>
>Thanks,
>
>Carl

Having not checked Gould before responding, I used the wrong terms.

S/complex/compound/

I meant "compound meters", not "complex meters".

Thanks,

Carl