Re: Smarter automatic beam subdivision?

[Trevor Daniels]

Rutger Hofman wrote Tuesday, April 01, 2014 12:11 PM

> Yes, thanks, I looked at it quite often and I didn't find what I asked 
> for. Did I miss that section? Let me summarize: I asked for smart 
> *sub*division, not division. I would like to have an automatic 
> subdivision scheme that results in:
> 
> c16[ c c c] c32[[ c c c] c[ c c c]] \tuplet 6/4 { c16[[ c c] c[ c c]] }
> 
> using the "syntax" suggested above. The problem is, if I specify a 
> baseMoment = 1/8, then the 16th will also be subdivided at 8th (c16[[ c] 
> c[ c]]), but I want 16th subdivided at the quarter, and subdivision at 
> the 8th only for smaller note values than 16th: 32nds or tuplets of 16th 
> or ... So something like: baseMoment is 1/4 for 16th, baseMoment is 1/8 
> for smaller note values.

You can specify beam divisions at different places for different note values
using beamExceptions, but this results in complete breaks in beams, not
subdivisions.  AFAIK subdivisions cannot be made dependent on note
values.

Trevor