Re: Two issue with Measure_grouping_engraver

[James Lowe]

Hello


On 03/08/18 13:32, Thomas Morley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> while playing with the Measure_grouping_engraver
> see:
> http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/changing-symbols-used-by-Measure-grouping-engraver-td215283.html
> I noticed two things which may qualify as bugs.
>
> (1) A documentation issue
>
> I tried to get MeasureGrouping in default 4/4-time, but nothing happened.
> One has to set beatStructure and baseMoment accordingly. The current
> docs make it sound it should work out of the box, though.
>
> \version "2.19.82"
>
> \new Staff \with { \consists "Measure_grouping_engraver" }
>    {
>        %% to get MeasureGrouping, next two lines need to be uncommented
>      %\set Timing.beatStructure = 4,4
>      %\set Score.baseMoment = #(ly:make-moment 1/8)
>      \repeat unfold 8 a'8
>    }

Is this just a documentation issue though?

*should* it work out of the box (to use your phrase) and so 
documentation is correct and the bug is in the code?

We don't document bugs after all.

James