Hey David, > When all else fails, try reading the documentation.
> <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/displaying-rhythms#automatic-note-splitting> >\new Voice \with { \remove "Note_heads_engraver" \consists "Completion_heads_engraver" completionUnit = #(ly:make-moment 1/4) } >{c'8 c'2 c'4 c'8} Wow. I actually read through that section many times and never picked up on the fact that completionUnit would help out in this case -- I thought it only affected the split when it happened across bar lines. Anyway, this works perfectly and gives one a lot of control on how to split things up. Thanks! On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 6:27 AM David Kastrup <[email protected]> wrote: > > David Bellows <[email protected]> writes: > > > Lilypond groups beams automatically according to the beat. If you use > > the "Completion_heads_engraver" you can get Lilypond to automatically > > split long notes at bar lines tying them together. > > > > So I'm wondering if Lilypond can automatically split long notes > > according to the beat and if I am just missing something? > > When all else fails, try reading the documentation. > > <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/displaying-rhythms#automatic-note-splitting> > > > If you have something like: > > > > {c'8 c'2 c'4 c'8} > > > > then you might want it to automatically split at the middle of the bar: > > > > {c'8 c'4.~c'8 c'4 c'8} > > > > or even on every beat: > > > > {c'8 c'8~c'4~c'8 c'8~c'8 c'8} > > \new Voice \with { \remove "Note_heads_engraver" > \consists "Completion_heads_engraver" > completionUnit = #(ly:make-moment 1/4) > } > {c'8 c'2 c'4 c'8} > > > > I've been searching for a while but I haven't been able to find > > mention of this anywhere though I might not be using the correct > > search terms. > > completionUnit is likely a v2.19 feature. At least the v2.18 > documentation does not mention it yet. > > -- > David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
