Thank you. That gives me something to play with for the beamed eights. Still haven’t figured out how to shorten the unbeamed eighth.
Carolyn > On Jul 1, 2026, at 4:28 PM, William Rehwinkel <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Dear Carolyn, > > It seems that Stem.details.beamed-lengths gets overridden by other spacing > rules in some way. You can try manually setting the position of the beam like > this: > > \version "2.26.0" > > \relative d'' { > \time 6/8 > d8 b cis > \override Beam.positions = #'(-1 . -1.3) > d b cis > } > > Does this work for you? > -William > > On 7/1/26 3:54 PM, Carolyn Beeton wrote: >> I am trying to shorten the stem length for a couple of notes (because there >> is another voice underneath, from the other staff) to reproduce this music. >> This snippet shows the default rendering, and then I’m trying to shorten and >> revert the stem length, but nothing changes. This is only the one voice, >> but I can’t shorten the stems even in this simple example. >> I have been able to make the stems long, but not short. >> What am I doing wrong, and how can I achieve this? >> Thanks, >> Carolyn >> \version "2.24" >> \include "english.ly" >> shortBeams = { % none of this works >> \override Stem.details.beamed-lengths = #'(0.5) >> \override Stem.details.beamed-minimum-free-lengths = #'(0.5) >> \override Stem.details.beamed-exteme-minimum-free-lengths = #'(0.6) >> \override Stem.details.stem-shorten = #'(0.5) >> } >> \relative c' >> { >> \time 6/8 >> e'4^"default" d8 cs4 d8 | d b cs d e8 e8 | d4 c8 b4 c8 ~ | 8 a b ~ 8 d c >> \section >> e4 d8 cs4 \shortBeams d8^"short" | d b cs \revert >> Stem.details.beamed-lengths d^"revert" e8 e8 | >> d4 c8 b4 c8 ~ | \shortBeams 8^"short" a b ~ \revert >> Stem.details.beamed-lengths 8 d c >> } >
