Re: stretched note stem

[Mark Polesky]

Peter Buhr wrote:
> Below is a simple E major scale. I don't want lilypond to
> stretch the stems of the lower notes up to the B staff line. I
> want all the note-stems to be the same length for both stemUp
> and stemDown notes. Is there an option to turn off the stem
> stretching?

I think it looks very odd to do this, but here you go:

\override Stem #'no-stem-extend = ##t

- Mark