Re: Shorten a beam stem length

2016-07-02 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 02.07.2016 04:22, Andrew Bernard wrote: Also, in your code, if you mean a length of 1, just use #1 for Scheme, not #’(1) as you had. Actually even the hash sign is unnecessary. Numbers mean the same in LilyPond syntax as in Scheme syntax (except for the special case of #.3 – that doesn’t

Re: Shorten a beam stem length

2016-07-01 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Joe, Set Beam.positions. I use this concept continually, for my work, in almost every bar. Here are a couple of utility functions I wrote that you may find handy. Nothing special, just convenient. setBeamPos = #(define-music-function (left right) (number? number?) "Manually set beam

Shorten a beam stem length

2016-07-01 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Please see the code fragment below. In measure 2, I want to shorten the stems of the first two beamed notes. I tried using \override Stem.detail.beamed-lengths, but I cannot get it to work. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks for any help that you are willing to