The plugin currently cannot handle beams where an endpoint is a rest. The
endpoints have to be notes. (It will handle cases where rests are in the
middle.)

There are currently no plans to add support for rests on the endpoints. You
might be able to get the plugin to help you by changing the endpoint rest to a
note, applying the plugin, then changing it back to a rest. But this might be
more hassle than it is worth.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: AaronManela [mailto:aaronmanela@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 1, 2004 08:03 PM
> To: patterson-plugins@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [patterson-plugins] beam over barlines and rests
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> I have a question about beaming over barlines - I've got Finale 2005,
> and I downloaded a copy of your tool for evaluation. The one case
> where it doesn't seem to work is trying to beam over rests, with
> partial stems turned on, across a barline. I've got a polyrhythmic
> thing going on and I need to preserve my groupings.
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> Take for instance a beamed group of one eigth note followed by two
> eigth rests; the eight note is at the end of one measure and both
> rests are at the beginning of the next. I can fudge it manually
> without the plugin using the 'too many notes in a measure' method, as
> long as it isn't over a system break.
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> Right now my solution for system breaks is to use the custom line tool
> with a line set to the same width as my beams and 6pt stems from the
> maestro font at an endpoint to fake the partial stems, as text on the
> endpoints is preserved vertical. Sometimes I have to overlap two of
> these lines.
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> Any better ideas? Could beam-over-barlines-over-rests wind up in a
> future version of your plugin?
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> Aaron Manela
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