Re: Shrinking beams along with noteheads

[Jan Warchoł]

2010/12/4 Nick Payne <address@hidden>:
>
>> Lilypond makes this easy:
>> \set fontSize = #-2
>> It affects beam size, stem width and height, note head size, accidental
>> size, and markup font size, nothing else, probably making it the ideal
>> solution for you :)
>
> No, that doesn't shorten the stem length. You also need to override Stem
> #'length-fraction.

By the way, why does it work like this?
Wouldn't changing all note parameters (including stem length, beam
width and beam gap) be more reasonable?
(maybe it's something for GLISS?)

cheers,
Janek