Re: Help for \beamExceptions

[Richard Shann]

On Fri, 2015-09-04 at 18:56 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> Richard Shann <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I seem to have run into a snag with re-writing
> > default-time-signature-settings, it works ok if there was previously a
> > rule for a time signature, but adding a rule for one (such as 6/8) which
> > has none doesn't result in the beaming pattern being used. Here is a
> > minimal example. The first bar shows the pattern desired, and this is
> > put into the value for 'beamExceptions in the 6/8 alist, but the second
> > bar is not then beamed to follow that pattern.
> 
> That's likely because 6/8 triggers a special case relying on the context
> property
> 
>      (beamHalfMeasure ,boolean? "Whether to allow a beam to begin
> halfway through the measure in triple time, which could look like 6/8.")

It sounds like I am tackling this at too low a level then. Is there a
more user-accessible way of setting the beaming rules for an entire
score containing many movements with a variety of time signatures?

Richard