Paul Thanks. I modified your snippet and was able to get it to work for the note heads. For some reason the stems and accidentals do not work.
I even tried a separate function to set Stem.color - also did not work. The stem does not seem to see accidentals. When I tried the color-acci in my program with many pages of music, it behaved strangely. In some places the stem and accidentals did change colour. In some other places only the note head. Perhaps, we are catching the stem and accidental after they have already been printed in some cases? How to get around that? %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \version "2.18.2" #(define (color-acci notehead) (let* ((accidental(ly:grob-object notehead 'accidental-grob)) (notecolumn (ly:grob-parent notehead X)) (stem (ly:grob-object notecolumn 'stem))) ; (format #t "head = ~a acci = ~a stem = ~a ?? ~%" notehead accidental stem) (if (ly:grob? accidental) (ly:grob-set-property! stem 'color red)) (if (ly:grob? accidental) (ly:grob-set-property! accidental 'color red)) (if (ly:grob? accidental) red black))) #(define (color-stem stem) (let* ((accidental(ly:grob-object stem 'accidental-grob))) (format #t "acci = ~a stem = ~a ?? ~%" accidental stem) (if (ly:grob? accidental) red black))) \score { \new Staff \relative c' { \override NoteHead.color = #color-acci \override Stem.color = #color-stem c4 b d dis ees f g aes } } %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user