Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 2246 in lilypond: beaming in 3/4 - a setting to not beam 3 eights against the beat.

[lilypond]

Comment #27 on issue 2246 by address@hidden: beaming in 3/4 - a  
setting to not beam 3 eights against the beat.
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2246

I suggest, then, a single option to forbid /starting/ an eighth-note beam  
at the middle of a measure in 3/4.  If the default setting is to allow such  
beams, the option can work orthogonally to the other auto-beaming settings.

\relative c'' { \time 3/4
  r8 a a a a a | a8 a a r8 r4 | r4. a8 a a | a a r a a a  \break
  \set Timing.beamHalfMeasure = ##f
  r8 a a a a a | a8 a a r8 r4 | r4. a8 a a | a a r a a a }

The case where the beam /ends/ mid-measure is more awkward to catch inside  
LilyPond, but that case causes no ambiguity if the remainder of the measure  
is written properly for 3/4 time.  If we simplify the code by not trying to  
catch this awkward case, we can avoid side effect of issue 2566.

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