Beams across line breaks
Appearance
Normally, LilyPond refuses to automatically break a line at places where a beam crosses a bar line. This behavior can be changed by setting the Beam.breakable property to #t.
This property does not affect manual breaks inserted with commands like \break.
\version "2.24.0"
music = {
\repeat unfold 8 c8
c8 \repeat unfold 7 { c[ c] } c
\repeat unfold 8 c8
}
\relative c'' {
<>^\markup { \typewriter Beam.breakable set to \typewriter "#t" }
\override Beam.breakable = ##t
\music
}
\relative c'' {
<>^\markup { \typewriter Beam.breakable not set }
\music
}
\paper {
line-width = 100\mm
tagline = ##f
}