Re: elegant compound time signatures

[Hans Aberg]

On 20 Oct 2008, at 15:01, Graham Percival wrote:

> > ... I find hard to understand what the second
> > bracelet group does:
> > {
> >  \set subdivideBeams = ##t
> >  \set beatLength = #(ly:make-moment 1 8)
> >  s4
> >  \unset subdivideBeams
> >  \unset beatLength
> >  s8. s4
> > }
>
> This gives you the single beam between the 2nd and 3rd 16th notes
> in each bar.

That part I understood - but not exactly how. It appears after the  
melody line code, so it msu alter some context.

  Hans