shorten stem

2013-12-25 Thread pabuhr
Merry Christmas, if anyone is out there today. I'm trying to squeeze a piece onto a single page, and I'm fussing with stem direction to control the height of the lines. I got the song to fit on a page, except there are few note/beam clashes (see example below). Is there a way to manually raise

Odp: shorten stem

2013-12-25 Thread Karol Majewski
If you want to squeeze a piece, changing stem length/direction is not the best idea IMO. You have better options: 1) use page-count = #1 in paper block, or 2) use system-system-spacing #'minimum-distance = #9 in paper block (try to play with numbers), or 3) \override Score.SpacingSpanner

Re: shorten stem

2013-12-25 Thread Nick Payne
On 26/12/13 06:06, pabuhr wrote: Merry Christmas, if anyone is out there today. I'm trying to squeeze a piece onto a single page, and I'm fussing with stem direction to control the height of the lines. I got the song to fit on a page, except there are few note/beam clashes (see example below).

Odp: shorten stem

2013-12-25 Thread Karol Majewski
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/snippets/pitches#pitches-altering-the-length-of-beamed-stems ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: shorten stem

2013-12-25 Thread pabuhr
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

Re: Override Stem #'length-fraction does not shorten stem of ledger notes

2011-04-19 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 18 April 2011 23:59, Neil Puttock n.putt...@gmail.com wrote: \override Stem #'no-stem-extend = ##t Thanks Neil! I looked into the Internals, even in stem-interface, but I missed it. And now: give me an inch and I'll take a mile! ;p The result is bad when I use \override Stem

Re: Override Stem #'length-fraction does not shorten stem of ledger notes

2011-04-18 Thread Neil Puttock
On 17 April 2011 22:46, Xavier Scheuer x.sche...@gmail.com wrote: Basically if a user could give me a clue how to disable the fact that when a note is far from the staff, its stem goes to the middle line of the staff, I would be grateful.  :) \override Stem #'no-stem-extend = ##t Cheers,

Override Stem #'length-fraction does not shorten stem of ledger notes

2011-04-17 Thread Xavier Scheuer
Hi, Not sure it is a bug but still cc: to bug-lilypond (see reason below). Basically if a user could give me a clue how to disable the fact that when a note is far from the staff, its stem goes to the middle line of the staff, I would be grateful. :) %% (Bug report) %% %% Shortening Stem

Re: Override Stem #'length-fraction does not shorten stem of ledger notes

2011-04-17 Thread Colin Campbell
On 11-04-17 03:46 PM, Xavier Scheuer wrote: Hi, Not sure it is a bug but still cc: to bug-lilypond (see reason below). Basically if a user could give me a clue how to disable the fact that when a note is far from the staff, its stem goes to the middle line of the staff, I would be grateful.