Re: Auto-beam in 2.6

[Stephen]

The confusing question is whether auto-beam.scm really overrides a default
behavior or sets the initial defaults. I suppose given that the file
overrides a default behavior for non-standard time signatures like 5/4 that
it does not cover, it really is a series of overrides.

The main thing is that I would like to create my own custom overrides for
signatures like 5/4, but I don't understand it well enough. The convenience
of not having to manually beam every last note in a piece is worth the
effort.

NOTE: this has been stuck in my outbox for nearly two weeks.

Stephen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mats Bengtsson" <address@hidden>
To: "Stephen" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Joe Neeman" <address@hidden>; "Lilypond Devel"
<address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 4:29 AM
Subject: Re: Auto-beam in 2.6


> The default values are established in the initialization file
> auto-beam.scm which effectively does a number of overrides, so
> what I wrote should be correct.
>
>   /Mats
>
> Citerar Stephen <address@hidden>:
>
> > I believe revert- works like every other revert and only reverts a
> > previous
> > override, restoring the default, not reverting the default itself. After
> > all, revert means to go back to a previous state, not to establish a
> > state.
> >
> > #'(override-auto-beam-setting '(1 16 4 8) 3 8 'Staff)
> > #'(revert-auto-beam-setting '(1 16 4 8) 'Staff)
> >
> > Stephen
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mats Bengtsson" <address@hidden>
> > To: "Joe Neeman" <address@hidden>
> > Cc: "Lilypond Devel" <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
> > Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 4:29 PM
> > Subject: Re: Auto-beam in 2.6
> >
> >
> > > revert-... will only remove start/stop points that have already been
> > > defined earlier and as far as I can understand, you have to use exactly
> > > the same parameters (for example wildcards or absence of wildcards) as
> > > in the already existing settings. In other words, you have to go into
> > > the file /usr/share/lilypond/2.6.0/scm/auto-beam.scm (or wherever the
> > > file is installed on your machine) and see exactly what default
> > > settings
> > > are done there if you want to remove one of these defaults.
> > >
> > > I send a copy of this email to lilypond-devel, since your question
> > > shows how user-unfriendly this interface is for the moment.
> > >
> > >    /Mats
> > >
> > >
> > > Joe Neeman wrote:
> > >>>override-auto-beam-setting adds an extra beam start/break point
> > >>>revert-auto-beam-setting removes a beam start/break point (but doesn't
> > >>>seem to like wildcards)
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> Actually, I still have a couple problems understanding things:
> > >>
> > >> %%% This beams straight through the 3rd beat, as expected
> > >> {
> > >> \time 4/4
> > >> #(revert-auto-beam-setting '(end 1 16 4 4) 3 4)
> > >> \repeat unfold 16 a16
> > >> }
> > >>
> > >> %%% This still breaks the beam at the 2nd beat!
> > >> {
> > >> \time 4/4
> > >> #(revert-auto-beam-setting '(end 1 16 4 4) 2 4)
> > >> \repeat unfold 16 a16
> > >> }
> > >>
> > >> I also have some problems with setting the beginning of a beam:
> > >>
> > >> %%% This should prevent the beam from starting on beat 3, right?
> > >> {
> > >> \time 6/8
> > >> #(revert-auto-beam-setting '(begin 1 8 6 8) 3 8)
> > >> \repeat unfold 6 a8
> > >> }
> > >>
> > >>
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> > > --
> > > =============================================
> > > Mats Bengtsson
> > > Signal Processing
> > > Signals, Sensors and Systems
> > > Royal Institute of Technology
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