I've had vocal compositions published by G. Schirmer and Les Productions
D'Oz (Quebec) and in both cases they used beams on 8th and 16th notes.
I don't know if every publishing house does it this way, but I
personally would prefer to have autobeaming turned *on* by default. It
could be turned off again if someone were engraving an older score and
wanted it to look like the original.
Jonathan
Finally:
1. Modern practice for vocal music engraving is to ALWAYS beam
eighth notes; and,
2. Including \autoBeamOff in these "simple" templates might be
confusing.
Therefore, I think we should leave \autoBeamOff out of the mix, and
either put a note to the effect of "for typesetting older vocal music,
use \autoBeamOff" or (better yet, IMO) leave it for the vocal music
section proper.
I would have to go home and look into my music engraving handbook to
verify your claims. However, I know that several people on the mailing
list have claimed that beaming often is used in vocal music to denote
melismata. This is also what LilyPond does for all manually entered beams.
I hope you compare the templates with what the LM and NR (at least the
sections that have been updated) have to say.
/Mats
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