I am engraving a piece where there are many groups of 16th notes where the first note is normal size and the rest should look like grace notes. I'm using \scaledDurations, \magnifyMusic and \normalsize to do this, but I'm running into a systemic problem: the stems of the normal size notes are mostly too short (they'd be fine if they were grace notes). To get around this I'm using beam position overrides and tweaks, but this gets tedious quickly. Is there a) a systemic way to tweak the stem lengths, and/or b) better way for me to do this?
%%% \version "2.22.2" \language "english" ns = \once \normalsize % Short stems on the normalsize notes \relative d'' { \magnifyMusic #2/3 { \scaleDurations 2/3 { \ns d16 f, g c, f g \ns c e, g c, e g \ns c d, g c, d g \ns c e, g c, e g | } } } beamPositionA = \tweak Beam.positions #'(4 . 2) \etc beamPositionB = \override Beam.positions = #'(3 . 1) % Need to tweak or override many, many notes \relative d'' { \magnifyMusic #2/3 { \scaleDurations 2/3 { \ns \beamPositionA d16 f, g c, f g \ns \beamPositionB c e, g c, e g \ns c d, g c, d g \ns c e, g c, e g \revert Beam.positions | } } } %%% -- Knute Snortum