Re: shortening a stem

[Janek Warchoł]

Hi,

2013/4/8 Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>:
>> > what must I write to shorten an unbeamed stem by, say, one unit?
>> > A naive approach would be
>> >
>> >   \once \override Stem.length #(- ly:stem::calc-length 1)
>> >
>> > which doesn't work of course...
>>
>> David Nalesnik wrote a very versatile function that makes such
>> things very easy.  You can find it in a thread titled "generalizing
>> offsets to properties" on -devel.
>
> Indeed, very nice!  Thanks for the link.  Unfortunately, it doesn't
> work with Stem.length at all because this is not an `offset'.

Really?  It works perfectly for me, with 2.17.13:
\offset Stem #'length #2   % in positions, not ss!
see attached.

>> I have no idea why this wasn't added to LilyPond yet - it's very
>> handy.
>
> It seems that it doesn't yet fully support the `dot' notation
> (i.e., using `foo.bar' instead of `foo #'bar').  Can this be fixed?

That'd be good.  Maybe David'll have some spare time - i'm sure that
he'd be able to fix it in a breeze, unlike me.
Janek

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