You can explicitly set the position of the left and right ends of a beam with \override Beam #'positions.
Perfect. It's a bit fussy getting the numbers right but I like the control. BTW, I had the "slope" macro in the suite of guitar macros I got from you a few years ago and which I use all the time. I just forgot about it. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user