> > what must I write to shorten an unbeamed stem by, say, one unit? > > A naive approach would be > > > > \once \override Stem.length #(- ly:stem::calc-length 1) > > > > which doesn't work of course... > > David Nalesnik wrote a very versatile function that makes such > things very easy. You can find it in a thread titled "generalizing > offsets to properties" on -devel.
Indeed, very nice! Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, it doesn't work with Stem.length at all because this is not an `offset'. > I have no idea why this wasn't added to LilyPond yet - it's very > handy. It seems that it doesn't yet fully support the `dot' notation (i.e., using `foo.bar' instead of `foo #'bar'). Can this be fixed? And yes, this is something which should be added to lilypond. A generalized \offset function is tremendously useful. Werner _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
