nachkan wrote: > > I am simply trying to explicitly write out a glissando in small notes (of > a specified size), while keeping the rhythmic notation accurate. They > happen to be 64th notes, so they have four beams connecting the stems. It > is easy enough to make the noteheads the desired size with e.g. "\override > NoteHead #'font-size = #-2". However, I cannot figure out how to make the > beams smaller as well - which is a fairly big deal when you have four > beams. I see that I can make the beam lines themselves thinner by writing > e.g. "\override Beam #'thickness = #0.35", but they are still spaced the > same distance apart as they normally would be. I cannot find any reference > to any variable or property which modifies the distance (or "gap") between > the beams (the Beam object's "gap" property, while sounding promising, > seems to do nothing) - if I could, this problem would be solved. > > What I am looking for is essentially the same as what \grace does, but the > notation it creates is too small for me, and I want to be able to set the > size to somewhere in between grace note size and normal note size. > > I thought this would be a common enough problem but after hours of > searching the internet, the lilypond docs, and these forums, I haven't > been able to find a solution. Is there some way to modify the beam > spacings in this way? Is there some way to alter the \grace command to > produce the desired effect? Or any other way of approaching this problem? > I don't mind doing some Scheme or other technical/geeky stuff, but I am > currently at a loss as to how to proceed with this. > > > Any help is really appreciated, thank you. >
maybe \new CueVoice { … } is what you're looking for!? -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Shrinking-beams-along-with-noteheads-tp30337685p30337972.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user