Re: \stemUp with mensural longa

[Werner LEMBERG]

> May I ask -just out of curiosity- why some notes have their stem
> coded *within* the notehead glyph, and not drawn by LilyPond itself?
> 
> (I know these stems are shorter than the usual ones, but it wouldn't
> be too hard to make the default Stem length shorter whenever the
> neomensural style is invoked...)

Well, those stems don't fit in the `modern' stem types.  All of those
notes are longer than a 4/4 full note; lilypond would need special
code to handle this.  Making the stems part of the glyph is OK, I
think.


    Werner