Hi Erika! To globally reduce the size of all articulations (I think that could be relevant, since many of them will relate to noteheads in a way similar to accents) you can use this next to the override for notehead fint size.
\override Script.font-size = #-.5 % or whatever size you want If you want to resize just the accents you could try the suggestions mentioned in this thread: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2021-09/msg00484.html As Paul wrote the stem extending to the middle line of the staff follows convention, but this can be suppressed by \override Stem.no-stem-extend = ##t Hope this helped /Leo > 10 feb. 2022 kl. 19:01 skrev Paul Hodges <[email protected]>: > > From: Erika Pirnes <[email protected]> > > The other thing is to have a more consistent length for stems. In my minimal > example, the stems in the first measure look too short because in both > measures they extend to the middle line. Any ideas? > > I don't know about the accent question. > > But as for the stems, the shorter ones in your example are the usual length > (one octave), and the longer ones follow the traditional convention (applied > by LilyPond as well as publishers in general) that stems of notes well > outside the stave are extended to the middle line of the stave. In music in > parts, stems facing away from the stave may be somewhat shortened; I don't > know whether LilyPond does this as well. > > Paul
