Re: \beamExeceptions problem

[Richard Shann]

On Sun, 2021-01-03 at 22:34 +0100, Xavier Scheuer wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Jan 2021 at 18:04, Richard Shann <richard@rshann.plus.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > My understanding of the \beamExceptions function in 2.20 was that
> you
> > should be able to pass it a complete bar beamed as you would wish
> and
> > expect other bars with the same beat structure to be beamed to
> match.
> > In this example barOne and barTwo have the same rhythm but only
> barOne
> > is beamed as desired.
> > What have I got wrong?
> 
> Hello Richard,
> 
> I learned this \beamExceptions function thanks to you, thank you.

:)

> If you replace  \beamExceptions \barOne by
> \beamExceptions { 16[ 16] 16[ 32 32] 16[ 16] 16[ 32 32] }
> you get the desired output.
> 
> Not sure what's going on, but when putting only rhythm in the pattern
> (like the example in the documentation) it seems to work.

what's going on is that you added the beam end ] which I had failed to
put there because, as David pointed out, the autobeaming did it for me.
The inclusion of the note names is ok (and very useful if you are
creating your template by copying a bar of music from your score).

Richard Shann