Beam_engraver - LilyPond program-reference
Description: LilyPond program-reference

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#### Beam_engraver

Handles Beam events by engraving Beams. If omitted, then notes will be printed with flags instead of beams.

Music types accepted:

beam-event

Properties (read)

`beamMelismaBusy` (boolean)
  Signal if a beam is present.
`beatLength` (moment)
  The length of one beat in this time signature.
`subdivideBeams` (boolean)
  If set, multiple beams will be subdivided at beat positions by only drawing one beam over the beat.

This engraver creates the following layout objects: Beam.

`Beam_engraver` is part of contexts: CueVoice, DrumVoice, GregorianTranscriptionVoice, MensuralVoice, TabVoice, VaticanaVoice and Voice

This page is for LilyPond-2.8.8 (stable-branch).

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