Re: weird de-beaming behavior

[David Kastrup]

"N. Andrew Walsh" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Phil,
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 1:18 PM Phil Holmes <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I'm no expert on lily's beaming system.  However, in your second example
>> you don't break an existing beam with a bar/line break, so it's rather
>> different from the first where the "correct" beaming was broken.
>>
>>
> Not knowing anything about how Lily works, I'm inclined to agree. in 3/4
> (at least here) a measure comprising only 8th-notes will be beamed straight
> through, thus (pseudo code):

>From "Automatic beams" in the manual:

_Beams across line breaks_

   Line breaks are normally forbidden when beams cross bar lines.  This
behavior can be changed as shown:

     \relative c'' {
       \override Beam.breakable = ##t
       c8 c[ c] c[ c] c[ c] c[ \break
       c8] c[ c] c[ c] c[ c] c
     }
     [image src="lilypond/b3/lily-4c62e333.png" alt="[image of music]" 
text="image of music"]

Can this be related?

-- 
David Kastrup