Re: Terminology of baseMoment, beats, groups

[David Kastrup]

Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:

> So, now the first question ...
>
> The terminology of baseMoment, beats and groups is inconsistent
> between the NR
> (http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/beams#setting-automatic-beam-behavior)
> and the code. The question is, what are the components of the
> following:
>
>   \set baseMoment = #(ly:make-moment 1/8)
>   \set beatStructure = 3,3,2
>
> From the text in the NR this would be three beats, divided in three or
> two base moments each.
> However, the C++ code (and the code comments) refer(s) to that as
> three groups with three beats each.

Can you please come up with actual quotes/evidence for those statements?
Neither of those make much sense, so I'd guess you'd been
over-paraphrasing either.  Or alternatively, there are grave errors in
the respective description which warrant fixing rather than unifying
first.

-- 
David Kastrup