Auto_beam_engraver

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Generate beams based on measure characteristics and observed Stems. Uses beatLength, measureLength and measurePosition to decide when to start and stop a beam. Overriding beaming is done through Stem_engraver properties stemLeftBeamCount and stemRightBeamCount.

Music types accepted:

beam-forbid-event

Properties (read)

subdivideBeams (boolean): If set, multiple beams will be subdivided at beat positions by only drawing one beam over the beat.
beatLength (moment): The length of one beat in this time signature.
autoBeamSettings (list): Specifies when automatically generated beams should begin and end. See Setting automatic beam behavior (lilypond) for more information.
autoBeaming (boolean): If set to true then beams are generated automatically.

This engraver creates the following layout objects: Beam.

Auto_beam_engraver is part of contexts: DrumVoice, GregorianTranscriptionVoice, TabVoice, VaticanaVoice and Voice

This page is for LilyPond-2.2.6 (stable-branch).

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