RE: Problems with automatic beaming when autoBeamOff in 3/8 time

[Trevor Daniels]

Reinhold Kainhofer wrote on 28 December 2007 08:45
> 
> Am Donnerstag, 27. Dezember 2007 schrieb Trevor Daniels:
> > Hi Reinhold
> >
> > As the two types of bar have different 
> sub-beats there is
> > no way to do this automatically with just a 
> single setting,
> > AFAIK - every time the sub-beating changes the new
> > beatLength will have to be indicated - just as 
> if you were
> > changing the time signature.  You already know the 
> > overrides to do this:
> >
> > \set Score.beatLength = #(ly:make-moment 2 16)
> > \set Score.beatLength = #(ly:make-moment 3 16)
> >
> > The commands can be set as short-name 
> variables, and they
> > apply score-wide, so only need to be placed in 
> one staff,
> > like this:
> 
> Ouch, then I have a serious problem. I was not 
> completely honest about those 
> measures (or rather I was too lazy to use 
> multiple staves in the example), 
> but the first two measures of my example actually 
> appear in parallel in 
> Schubert's Stabat Mater D383, e.g. in "Nr.8 
> Arie", measures 11 or 55. I'm 
> attaching a scan of an 1897 Edition of that 
> piece, a 1996 edition uses the 
> exact same beaming.
>
Not a problem.  Just change the beatLength in the
Staff context instead, using

\set Staff.beatLength = #(ly:make-moment 2 16)
\set Staff.beatLength = #(ly:make-moment 3 16)

although the changes have then to be inserted 
in the music for each staff, which adds to the
work.
 
> Cheers,
> Reinhold
> -- 

Trevor D