Re: automatic beaming within tuplets

[Erik Sandberg]

On Monday 05 January 2004 20.37, Vaclav Smilauer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am unable to find the right duration fraction for autoBeamSettings so
> that it would work in triplets. (end * * * *) works fine, but that is
> not what I want as it affects everything. Pasted example shows what I
> mean; I want all the c's beamed with two beams, not four.
>
> Thanks for help. Vaclav. (LilyPond 2.1.0)

The duration of an 8th triplet is 1/12 (there are twelve eighth triplets in 
one whole note). So add the following line to get the desired result:

> \score {
>   \notes {
>     \relative c' {
>       \property Voice.autoBeamSettings \override #'(end 1 8 * *) =
> #(ly:make-moment 1 2)

 \property Voice.autoBeamSettings \override #'(end 1 12 * *) = 
#(ly:make-moment 1 2)

>       \times 2/3 { c'8 c c c c c c c c c c c} d d d d d d d d
>     }
>   }
> }