Hi Bart,
I'm away from my computer so I can't verify what I'm about to say, but I
think that once a note is beamed it is actually the beam that controls the
lengths of the stems. I think you need to override the Beam's positions
property (if memory serves) to accomplish what you want.
Kevin
On Sun, Oct 18, 2020, 20:38 bart deruyter <bart.deruy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to typeset a score of Sor, a piece with three voices and have
> trouble finding a way to shorten the stem length of the middle voice to
> make it fit to be between the outer voices. No matter how low I set the
> number of Stem.length, it does not shorten.
> Here is a simplified version of my code:
>
> \version "2.19.40"
> classicalGuitarA = \relative c' {
> \tuplet 3/2 {fis16 g fis} eis8 fis
> }
> classicalGuitarB = \relative c' {
> \override Stem.direction = #-1
> \override Stem.length = #8
> d8 cis d
> }
> classicalGuitarC = \relative c {
> d4.
> }
> \score {
> \new Staff \with {
> } { \time 3/8 \clef "treble_8" << \classicalGuitarA \\
> \classicalGuitarC \\
> \classicalGuitarB
> >> }
> }
> this is the result:
> [image: image.png]
> what I'd need is this:
> [image: image.png]
> Thanks in advance for pointing me in the right direction :-)
>
> Bart Deruyter
>
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