Re: Accent size and stem length

[Leo Correia de Verdier]

Hi Erika!

To globally reduce the size of all articulations (I think that could be 
relevant, since many of them will relate to noteheads in a way similar to 
accents) you can use this next to the override for notehead fint size.

\override Script.font-size = #-.5 % or whatever size you want

If you want to resize just the accents you could try the suggestions mentioned 
in this thread:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2021-09/msg00484.html

As Paul wrote the stem extending to the middle line of the staff follows 
convention, but this can be suppressed by 

\override Stem.no-stem-extend = ##t

Hope this helped
/Leo

> 10 feb. 2022 kl. 19:01 skrev Paul Hodges <pwh@cassland.org>:
> 
> From: Erika Pirnes <erika.pirnes@hotmail.com> 
> 
>  The other thing is to have a more consistent length for stems. In my minimal 
> example, the stems in the first measure look too short because in both 
> measures they extend to the middle line. Any ideas?
> 
> I don't know about the accent question.  
> 
> But as for the stems, the shorter ones in your example are the usual length 
> (one octave), and the longer ones follow the traditional convention (applied 
> by LilyPond as well as publishers in general) that stems of notes well 
> outside the stave are extended to the middle line of the stave.  In music in 
> parts, stems facing away from the stave may be somewhat shortened; I don't 
> know whether LilyPond does this as well.
> 
> Paul