Re: auto-beaming

[Carl D. Sorensen]

On 3/19/09 11:56 AM, "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> wrote:

>>> You mean, using
>>> #(override-auto-beam-setting '(subdivide 1 32 3 4) 1 8)
>>> to get a subdivision after the first four 32nd notes in 3/4
>>> meter? Good
>>> idea!
>> 
>> Actually, that's not what I meant.  But it's what I should have
>> meant.  So I
>> guess I should have meant that.  I'm glad people smarter than me
>> are around
>> to pick up the pieces!
> 
> I'd go along with this.  If the new subdivide rules didn't
> inhibit the beatGrouping rules it would make it easier for
> users to override the defaults, since we could remove some
> of the beam-ending rules and replace them with subdivide
> rules and still get acceptable beaming out of the box, with
> fewer reverts being needed.
> 
> BTW, did we ever file a feature request for a function to
> revert all the beam-ending rules in a particular time
> signature?  This would also be very useful.

I don't think we ever filed a feature request, but I think that Nicolas gave
us such a function, IIRC.

Carl