On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM Kevin Cole <dc.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not just the note heads, but the stems and possibly the beams?
>
> I've got a score with more grace notes than actual notes and every
> measure looks something like the attached image. In LllyPond, the
> grace notes appear to be so large that it's hard to see the forest for
> the trees.
>
> I've experimented unsuccessfully with startGraceMusic and
> stopGraceMusic, probably because I'm missing some brace or bracket or
> context or placing it somewhere them shouldn't be. (When I told it to
> change the NoteHead.font-size it seemed to work but when I added in
> Stem.length and Beam.thickness it messed up everything.) Is there
> anything that treats grace notes as grace notes and just scales them
> wholesale?
>
> A very stripped down look at general template that I want to work the
> solution into is:
>
Your example code wasn't helpful because a) it had no grace notes in it and
b) it didn't show what you tried that didn't work.
Is this what you wanted to do?
%%% Start
\version "2.24.4"
startGraceMusic = {
\override NoteHead.font-size = -6
}
stopGraceMusic = {
\revert NoteHead.font-size
}
\relative c''' {
\time 2/4
\grace { a32 e f } e8 c \grace { g'32 c, d } c8 \grace { a'32 } b,16
\grace { d32 } a16 |
\grace { g'32 c, d } c8 \grace { a'32 } b,8 \grace { g32 d' g, e' } b8[
\grace { g'32 f } g8] |
}
%%% End
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