Well, I am very happy to get things to work. Mats wrote:
> > ??? The property stem-length only applies to notes typeset within > text markups with the \markup{ \note ... } function. Not quite true. \override Stem #'length = #20.0 %tweak gave some very long stems for quarter notes in a normal system with music expression. I found out in order to verify that I got hold of the right variable. I did not expect that there are different lengths for different number of beams. I was not clear-minded enough to search the documentation again ... fatigue :-( Therefore many thanks again; I also found left- and right-padding (dimension, in staff space) Space to insert between note and accidentals. -- dax2-tele2adsl:dk -- d-axel.dk/ Donald Axel _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user