Beams and time-signatures

My group plays music from the Balkans, and in 80% of the cases we're dealing with odd time signatures. These include not only 7/8 or 9/8, but also 15/16, 25/16, 11/8 and it does not stop there.

1.
When we import music from Finale to MuseScore though XML (MusicXML), we generally lose the correct beams over the notes. Just as an example, if we import a piece in 9/8 originally beamed as 2-2-2-3, the result in MuseScore is beamed as 3-3-3 which is completely wrong. It would comprise a lot of work to correct a completed song in MuseScore. Admittedly, we did not enough tests to say that it is always wrong.
2.
Though it is possible to set a time signature like 2-3-2-2/8, MuseScore will NOT beam like that, not even in the simplest case with only 8th notes in a measure.
3.
Any player of odd time signatures, would rather see 11/8 than (for example) 2-2-3-2-2/8 at the beginning of a staff.

When I put the above together, MuseScore would be greatly enhanced and finally useable for a group like mine, if we would have the possibility to provide any time-signature in the simplest form (like 9/4 or 18/16 or 6/8), and also a hint to the automatic beaming in some form of (for example) 2-2-2-3.

So we need two fields to set before starting a composition: one field for the simple signature, and one (optional) field for the beaming.
For example, entering 4/4 and leaving the beaming empty, you get it beamed 2-2 by default. Entering 8/8 and you wil get it beamed 2-2-2-2. And attention now, entering 8/8 plus a beam of 3-3-2, one should have it beamed like 3-3-2, and would have effectively created an odd signature in 8/8... Not all classical build people would agree on that, but 3-3-2 is an odd measure, if you are also prepared to play 2-2-3-2-3 or much worse.
There is really no problem if one enters 9/8, leaving the beaming empty, and thus getting 3-3-3 beams. Truth is, that anyone to create a 9/8 song, will always enter a beam like 2-2-2-3 or 3-2-2-2 (both are common) or otherwise a rare variant like 2-3-2-2.

And even then, it should be easy to insert one meausure with a completely different signature and beaming, which needs those two fields to set again on a single measure base.

So, apart from the above proposal to enhancement, there is still the problem of import from XML. I have no idear if MusicXML provides also for beams (it should), but I suspect a real bug there. I will get to a bug report in the right forum after we've tested better.

Good luck,
flyingdm