Re: override Stem beamed-lengths

[Mats Bengtsson]

address@hidden wrote:

> I'm new here and new to lilypond, but I read the posts from a few years
> ago about tweaking the stem lengths of beamed notes.  The posts deal
> with earlier versions.

Whenever you find a solution in such an old post, try to figure out
the version number it was written for (let's say 2.6.0) and add a
line
\version "2.6.0"
at the top of your file. Then, run
convert-ly -e yourfile.ly
to automatically update the syntax to correspond to your
current LilyPond version. If you try this procedure on the
code below, you will see that you now should use

\override Stem #'details #'beamed-lengths = #'(20)

If you read carefully in the stem-interface documentation,
it says that beamed-lengths belongs to the details property.
See also section "Layout tunings within contexts", which shows
this particular example.

> The beamed-lengths property is in the stem-interface, but not in Stem 
> according to the documentation.

The properties listed directly on the main page for each layout
object, is just the properties that happen to be set by default,
which is a small subset of all properties available for the object.
To get the full list, you have to browse through all the interfaces.

  /Mats