Re: Direction of beamlets

[Carl Sorensen]

On 1/24/10 3:01 AM, "Sven Axelsson" <address@hidden> wrote:

> In Scottish bagpipe music it is customary to have the beamlets in a dotted/cut
> pair of notes to always point towards the dotted note.
> However, the default Lilypond setup for something like
> 
> { c8. c16 c16 c8. }
> 
> is to tie the beam for the short notes together. Can I change this behaviour
> easily, perhaps by tweaking the auto-beam-settings?

You might be able to get this to work by turning on beam subdivision.  See
selected snippets in the Notation Reference, Section 1.2.4.

HTH,

Carl

P.S.  The autobeam settings are different between 2.12 and 2.13.  Be sure
you read up on whatever version you're actually using.