Re: Looking for proper beam grouping

[Anthony W. Youngman]

In message <address@hidden>, Trevor 
Daniels <address@hidden> writes
> Anthony W. Youngman Saturday, March 28, 2009 3:50 PM
> > In message <address@hidden>, Trevor
> > Daniels <address@hidden> writes
> > >
> > Just tried to do this (2.12.2) and I'm getting 6/8 beaming in a  3/4
> > passage :-( Am I doing anything stupid?
> >
> > voiceTimeSig = {
> >        \override Staff.TimeSignature #'style = #'()
> >        \key f \major
> >        \time 3/4
> > #(revert-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 3 4) 3 4)
> > \set beatGrouping = #'(1 1 1)
> >        s2.*8  % mark 1
> >        s2.*6  % mark 2
> >        \time 2/4 s2 \time 4/4 s1
>
> Not really stupid, as the same error catches everyone
> quite often.  It's that Context thing again.  From the
> way you are doing it I guess you are not placing the
> revert command in every Voice.  But in this form it
> applies only to the Voice context in which it appears.
> To make the revert apply to every voice in a Staff you
> need to add 'Staff, and to make it apply to every
> Voice in every Staff you need to add 'Score, like this:
>
> #(revert-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 3 4) 3 4 'Score)

Thanks.
> Also the \set beatGrouping is unnecessary - that is the
> default grouping in 3/4 time.
>
> You'll be pleased to know the revert will not be required
> at all in 2.13.1 to obtain this beaming.
It works fine now. But (as others have mentioned) why not in 2.12.3? 
imho it's a bug, and as such ought to be fixed.

Cheers,
Wol
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