Re: stem length in a three voice setting

[Kevin Barry]

Hi Bart,

I'm away from my computer so I can't verify what I'm about to say, but I think that once a note is beamed it is actually the beam that controls the lengths of the stems. I think you need to override the Beam's positions property (if memory serves) to accomplish what you want.

Kevin

On Sun, Oct 18, 2020, 20:38 bart deruyter <bart.deruyter@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I'm trying to typeset a score of Sor, a piece with three voices and have trouble finding a way to shorten the stem length of the middle voice to make it fit to be between the outer voices. No matter how low I set the number of Stem.length, it does not shorten.

Here is a simplified version of my code:

\version "2.19.40"
classicalGuitarA = \relative c' {
  \tuplet 3/2 {fis16 g fis} eis8 fis
}
classicalGuitarB = \relative c' {  
  \override Stem.direction = #-1
  \override Stem.length = #8
  d8 cis d
}
classicalGuitarC = \relative c {
d4.
}
\score {
    \new Staff \with {
    } { \time 3/8 \clef "treble_8" << \classicalGuitarA \\
                            \classicalGuitarC \\
                            \classicalGuitarB
                         >> }
}

this is the result:

what I'd need is this:

Thanks in advance for pointing me in the right direction :-)

Bart Deruyter

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