Re: Question about \noBeam documentation

[Trevor Daniels]

Nick

The default beaming in 3/4 time permits beams to start
anywhere but allows 8th note beams to terminate only
at the bar end.  So a \noBeam placed on the final 8th
note means there is nowhere for the beam to terminate.

If there are many bars with this timing you can override
the default beaming, but otherwise the manual override
is easiest.  The override to permit 8th beams to terminate
during beat 2/4 in 3/4 time is

#(override-auto-beam-setting '(end 1 8 3 4) 2 4)

The details are in Notation Reference 1.2.4.

(As an aside, I'm not sure that this is the best default.
Maybe 8th note beams should be permitted to terminate
during every quarter beat in 3/4 time by default. Alhough
this would not give you the beaming you want either.)

Trevor

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Payne" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 5:15 AM
Subject: Question about \noBeam documentation


> The 2.12.1 NR section on manual beams says "Individual notes may be marked
> with \noBeam to prevent them from being beamed". However, in the following
> example, putting \noBeam on the dotted eighth note stops *all* the 
> previous
> notes from being beamed, not just the note with \noBeam attached, unless
> [...] is used to explicitly beam the other notes
>
> \version "2.12.1"
> \relative c'' {
> \time 3/4
> \acciaccatura{a16[ b16]} a8-. g-. a-. b-. a8.\noBeam r16 |
> \acciaccatura{a16[ b16]} a8-.[ g-. a-. b-.] a8.\noBeam r16 |
> }
>
> Nick


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