Re: wrong beaming of dotted 8th followed by 8ths

[Trevor Daniels]

Valentin Villenave wrote Thursday, October 29, 2009 10:32 AM
>

> On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 12:41 AM, luis jure <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
>
> Hi Luis, sorry for the delay,
>
> > % this shows the default beaming and how it should be beamed
> > r16 c8. c8 c r16 c8. c8[ c] |
>
> I'm not sure what to do. The first half of the measure does look 
> ugly
> indeed (see attached), but I can't decide whether it's a bug or 
> not.
> Trevor, what would you do? (I'm asking you because beaming is kind 
> of
> your speciality now, isn't it? ;-)

Not really; Carl developed all the new beaming code.  But if you
really want my opinion I believe this should be classed as an
enhancement, namely to take rests into account when determining
the shortest note in the beaming interval.  It should be a 
switchable
option to preserve the current behaviour and to accommodate both
preferences, as I don't believe there is a generally accepted rule
here.

Bug 638 is related, as solutions to that and this require a 
different
approach to beaming - one which assesses the duration of notes
(and rests) within a whole bar before selecting the most appropriate
beaming for that bar.

> Valentin
Trevor