On 1/15/12 6:04 PM, "Carl Sorensen" <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 1/15/12 3:06 PM, "Janek Warchoł" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>2012/1/15 Martin Straeten <[email protected]>: >>>> I'm not top posting. >>> in 6/8 an 3/4 measure the beamlet of the last/first semiwaver >>> points to the dotted quaver. >>> >>> semiquavers should be beamed together >> >>I may be wrong, but i don't agree. Beaming them together would be >>against the rhythmical subdivision in 6/8 and 3/4 meters. >> > >I agree with Martin. One of the important things to recognize (which >LilyPond doesn't do yet in the beaming pattern) is that complex meters >(like 3/4 and 6/8) have a fundamental beat unit of 3, and so the beaming >that is chosen is wrong. > >The fundamental unit of 6/8 is not 1/8, but 3/8. 6/8 is two groups of >3/8. The division at half of the 3/8 group is a more important division >than the division at 1/3 of the 3/8 group, so the beaming should reflect >that division. > >In the old code, this was handled by trying to avoid "sticking out" flags. > That was tossed in order to recognize beat divisions, and the beat >divisions work properly in simple meter, but not it complex meter. > >Please make this a regression, with a title that says "Beamlet orientation >is wrong in complex meters". > >Thanks, > >Carl Having not checked Gould before responding, I used the wrong terms. S/complex/compound/ I meant "compound meters", not "complex meters". Thanks, Carl _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
