Comment #26 on issue 2246 by [email protected]: beaming in 3/4 - a setting to not beam 3 eights against the beat.
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2246
The option we were missing from 2.14 was to automatically beam 6-eighths but not 3 (the Ted Ross rule)
Not only Ted Ross; also Elaine Gould. And Gould appears to be much more thorough and careful about beaming than any of the previous engraving references.
However, I completely agree that the human engraver is (or should be) free to choose their style. But if it requires consistent manual beaming, the choice is not really there.
Thanks, Carl
