RE: tuplet beam

[Mark Stephen Mrotek]

Simon,

 

Thank you for your response and the corrections you supplied. I need to read through it and compare it to output to understand the relationships between the code and the notation. Always learning!

 

Mark

 

From: Simon Albrecht [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2015 2:14 PM
To: Mark Stephen Mrotek; address@hidden
Subject: Re: tuplet beam

 

Hello Mark,

Am 01.06.2015 um 21:18 schrieb Mark Stephen Mrotek:

Hello,

 

The attached snippet, tuplet beam, produces the tuplets grouped in three sixteenths, as I want.

When I copy and paste the code into the score, 6 Var WoO 70(5), the beaming changes.

This is because the settings of the other staff, made through \time 6/8, take precedence, for whatever reason. Use a \global variable in every staff to avoid this, as seen in the attachment. There are some comments inline.
There is a subtle change in behaviour also: The code you gave would have beamed 16[ 16] 16[ 16] 16[ 16], the one I made would give 16[ 16 16 16 16 16] as by default, which is probably preferable.
Admittedly, <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/beams> is long and difficult to wrap one’s head around, but once read thoroughly and understood, everything will (probably) be clear.

HTH, Simon