Re: Space between beams?

[Javier Ruiz-Alma]

Referring to this 10-yr-old inquiry, I'm working on the exact same bar Alex typeset:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2004-02/msg00086.html

NR led me to overriding the beam font-size to cause the 16th beam to engrave thinner and with smaller gap between them (as graces do).  Beam, although documented to support the font-size interface, doesn't seem to be affected by overrides to this property:

\version "2.18.0"
\relative c' {
    %normal notes & beams
    d16 e f g
   
    %smaller note heads work
    \override NoteHead.font-size = #-4
    d e f g
    \revert NoteHead.font-size
   
    % smaller beam command
    % doesn't seem to make any difference
    \override Beam.font-size = #-4
    d e f g
    \revert Beam.font-size
   
    %print graces for reference
    \grace { d e f g }
   
    %back to normal
    d e f g  
}

Any ideas of how to scale beams down?

Javier Ruiz
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