On Wednesday, 1 September 1999, John Sankey writes:
> Fair enough that we have to give the autobeamer a complete set of
> instructions. However, it would be useful to mention in the reference
> manual that *every* possible duration of notes is handled
> independently, with the example that a 3/16th duration is handled
Make that *can be handled* independently.
One should (as is done now for commonly used meters) set a meter-default,
and include all exceptions to that. If I hear a sane (and better)
solution, I'll change it.
Consider this:
time4_4beamAutoEnd_8 = 1/2
time4_4beamAutoEnd_16 = 1/4
time4_4beamAutoEnd_32 = 1/4
If you consider 8. to be in the 1/16 class, this
32 32 8.
will be beamed as:
[32 32] 8.
8.==3/16 -> stop at 1/4.
I'll have to think about it a bit more. We could change, and say:
time4_4beamAutoEnd1_8 = 1/2
means: only 1/8th
and
time4_4beamAutoEnd_8 = 1/2
means: 1/8 3/8 (not 2/8==1/4)
What about?
> independently of 1/16th notes, because musicians will mostly assume
> the opposite. And, I do think that terminating a no-instruction beam
> at the end of a bar is better than at the end of a beat - I have
> never myself come across a notation where beams cross bar lines, but
> beams crossing beats are very common.
Ok, will look into.
> Should I copy Adrian Mariano on suggestions such as this for the
> refman, or that they always be posted to gnu-music-discuss?
GMD: someone might say something smart (hw?), and it doesn't hurt
to have stuff like this archived.
Jan.
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