I seldom use automatic beams since most music I typeset is vocal. However, instrumentalists seem to like beams better than unbeamed notes, so I made a version with beams and lyrics.
It's not very nice. 1. The stems are often uncomfortably short. Is there a way to tell PMX "never make a stem shorter than xxx"? (I know I can do this by hand in the PMX code, or even write a Lua script to postprocess the PMX code). 2. The final bar is 3½ beats, complementing the upbeat in bar 0. To do this, I issue a blind meter change to 7/8. PMX decides to group the first three notes together. I experimented with a purely instrumental piece in 7/8 with some scales. (Scales work better in 7/8 than in 4/4.) PMX groups the first three notes together and keeps the other four detached. Is there a better way than a blind meter change to make a curtailed final bar?
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