Re: Is it possible to change beaming from the \layout block?

[Trevor Daniels]

Thomas Morley wrote Tuesday, October 30, 2012 10:16 AM


> 2012/10/30 Reinhold Kainhofer <address@hidden>:
>> On 2012-10-30 02:12, Vaughan McAlley wrote:
>>>
>>> This code compiles without complaint, but the beams are still in
>>> groups of four. What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> Nothing. The \time 4/4 command implicitly sets all the timing properties, so
>> your global values are overwritten and don't have any effect.

> Are you sure?

The \time command sets only baseMoment and beatStructure; 
beamExceptions remains unaffected, other than selecting the rules
applicable to the time signature, which may earlier have been
overridden.

Trevor