On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Christopher Meredith
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> I know this is pretty simple, but I can't get it to work for the life of me.
> I want to cause eighth notes to be beamed in pairs by default, rather than
> fours. I use mostly 4/4 and 3/4 time. I found this:
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http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/ajax/user/lilypond/Beams.html#Setting-automatic-beam-behavior
> But nothing directly addresses what I want to do, at least as far as I can
> tell. I tried adapting one of the examples that uses sixteenth notes, but
> was unable to achieve the desired results. Can anyone help? Thanks!