On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM Knute Snortum <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Two things. The property name is beam-thickness, not just thickness. Also, > Stem.length isn't going to work because it affects just one stem: the next > one. So no way to adjust the stem lengths that I know of, but that doesn't > mean someone else might know how to do it. > > %%% Start > \version "2.24.4" > > startGraceMusic = { > <>( > \override NoteHead.font-size = #-7 > \override Beam.beam-thickness = #0.4 > } > > stopGraceMusic = { > \revert NoteHead.font-size > \revert Beam.beam-thickness > <>) > } > > \relative c''' { > \time 2/4 > \grace { a32 e f } e8 c \grace { g'32 c, d } c8 \grace { a'32 } b,16 \grace > { d32 } a16 | > \grace { g'32 c, d } c8 \grace { a'32 } b,8 \grace { g32 d' g, e' } b8[ > \grace { g'32 f } g8] | > } > %%% End
Ah. Thanks. I await in hope of a stem solution that isn't too opaque, occult, arcane or longer than the score. But for the moment, I guess I'll settle on smaller note heads and beams. Alas, I often find that LilyPond looks at something like the letter "W" and insists that it's "VV" -- two "V" with no horizontal space between them. Or perhaps UU because it's a "double-U". (Then again, I'm not a professional typesetter or engraver.)
