Re: Feature request

[David Kastrup]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:

>>> Yes.  I would go even one step further, defining subbeams also.
>>>
>>> Example:
>>>
>>>   \beaming 5/16 { 16[ 16] 16[[ 16] 16] }
>>>
>>>   +----+    +----+----+
>>>   +----+    +----+   -+
>>>   |    |    |    |    |
>>>
>> 
>> First we would need to get this manner of specifying subbeams work
>> properly in manually beamed music.  I don't think that manual beams
>> currently nest in that manner.
>
> OK, ok :-) I'm just doing some brainstorming.  I'm quite sure that
> subbeaming with more than a single `[' has already been discussed a
> longer time ago, but I can't remember the outcome.

I consider it likely that the partcombiner vetoed this change, judging
from the tantrums it threw on the various iterations of the related slur
problem <URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2584>.

-- 
David Kastrup