> I have a Chopin piece where the notes form a broken beam across a key change > and break (see first attachment broken-beam-over-key-change.) LilyPond has > drawn the stem and beam long in the upper right-hand corner to avoid the key > change. I'm not sure I like that and I'm trying to change it. I can shorten > the stem with the \alterBroken command but then the beam collides with the > key change (see second attachment broken-beam-over-key-change-modified.) > > Is there a way to shorten the upper right-hand broken beam? Below is the MWE: >
Dear Knute, Adding the following just under your \alterBroken line: \alterBroken break-overshoot #'((2 . -8) (0 . 0)) Beam …does seem to do the trick. Reference is: https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/internals/beam_002dinterface All the best, Yoshi
