Re: less than two visible stems

[Sean Reed]

> > I was wondering if it could be done automatically. I've tried
>
> I don't know what's best. For a much larger portion of the music, it 
> might be a valid warning. Ideas?
i can think of instances where a warning is valid, but the only ones 
that come to mind right off the bat are generally stylistic issues; for 
example, when beaming a 16th note to a dotted 8th rest in most common 
forms of classical music notation.

what other situations for valid warnings are there that i'm 
overlooking? this might clarify understanding of autoBeam and help find 
an idea for a creative approach to the issue (i'm sure you guys have 
thought these things through, especially being active instrumentalists 
yourselves).

i can beam the following with no warning about "less than two visible 
stems": a16[ r8 a16]. whereas a16[ r8.] gives me the warning.

if it is indeed primarily a style issue, perhaps a (set-xxxx-style) 
function would be possible. there are various automatic accidental 
environments with different rules which are set with the 
(set-accidental-style) function.

would it be feasible to implement different automatic beaming 
environments? perhaps with an argument in the context part of the 
function to indicate which beat duration then gets checked for 
potential mistakes? for example, one could indicate # 
(set-automaticBeaming-style 'restInclusion #('quarters#)) [forgive me 
if that's senseless code!]. this would indicate, for example, that 
rests can be beamed to notes, even in groups of two (one rest, one 
note), and that automatic beaming is undertaken for every quarter note 
beat. this would perhaps also allow for zeroguy's desire to not have to 
manually place the square brackets all the time. one could also then 
choose #(set-automaticBeaming-style 'default), like with the accidental 
styles, which would then give the warnings we get now, and which would 
be default.

again, i have no understanding of the underlying programming involved, 
so forgive me if the implementation of such a suggestion would mean 
rewriting everything.

-sean
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Sean Reed
Hamburg, Germany
Web: www.seanreed.de

> > using the autoBeam feature, but it doesn't seem to do it across rests.
> > Is there any option to turn on to allow this to happen automatically?
> > (As opposed to typing in the '['s all the time.)
>
>
> No.
>
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