Giles Boardman <giles.board...@hotmail.co.uk> writes: > Is that "no, you can't tell me" or "no, it can't be done? (Just > kidding). Thanks very much. It will save me spending time looking.
It is "it is hardwired into the source code to a degree where it would require some really heavy lifting to make it adaptable". It would be easier (but not trivial) to hardwire it to a different fixed value, but then your copy of LilyPond would be incompatible with everybody else's which is a maintenance nightmare, meaning that it should only be attempted by people who are probably versed enough as programmers as to be able to contribute a variable-size tick. "it can't be done" is not a thing with Free Software. It's more like "if you have to ask, you may be the wrong person to do this as your first project". -- David Kastrup
