Excess Note Value Beam Crossing a Bar Line
I know how to get a beam to cross a bar line when the note value will fit in the last unfilled rest of the first measure, but suppose it is desired to put, for example, an 8th note on the last 16 rest of the first measure and have it's beam connected to an 8th note in the next measure. The way it does it now is scoring two 16th notes on each side of the bar line with a tie which can then be beamed together along with the second 8th note in the next measure. Is there a way to avoid the 16th notes and have a clean 8th note to 8th note beam across the bar line?
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Sounds like you are describing wanting to put half a beat more into the first measure and half a beat less into the second. It's extremely non-standard notaton, but if you have some special reason for wanting to do this, you coukd change the time duration of the measure using Measure Properties (in the right click / context menu). There is also an experimental feature intended that eliminates ties over barlines automatically - see Style / General - but it is meant for early music only and doens't seem to support beaming acrossd the barline.
In reply to Sounds like you are by Marc Sabatella
I agree it's extremely non-standard, but Robert Schumann uses it extensively in his piano Toccata, Op. 7 which I'm trying to transcribe. I'll just stick with the program's 16th note work-around.