Re: A reminder maybe?

[David Raleigh Arnold]

On Monday 12 April 2010 11:01:21 Mark Polesky wrote:
> David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
> > I hope I didn't miss this, but has the automatic further
> > shortening of downward stems on very low notes and of
> > upward stems on very high notes been implemented? (There
> > was discussion of this back in the Cretaceous.)
> 
> There is some recent discussion on this topic here:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2010-04/msg00085.htm
> l
> 
> - Mark
> 

It's a similar topic, but not the same topic. Many engravers further 
shortened stems on the very lowest and highest opposed notes not on the 
staff. To fit more systems on the page, one presumes. They can be barely
a  linespace long. The shortening of opposed stems now has been optimum
in  the midrange for a long time, IMO.

A command with a minimum stem length could turn it on. The stems of 
successive adjacent notes would each be made longer to where the regular 
(already shortened) length was reached. Without specified high/low 
pitches it could be implemented according to the range of the music in 
the system. Regards, daveA

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