Shorten a beam stem length

[Joseph N. Srednicki]

Please see the code fragment below.

 

In measure 2, I want to shorten the stems of the first two beamed notes.

 

I tried using \override Stem.detail.beamed-lengths, but I cannot get it to work.

 

Can someone point me in the right direction?

 

Thanks for any help that you are willing to provide.

 

Joe Srednicki

 

\version "2.19.39"

\language "english"

global = {\time 2/4 \key d \minor }

<< \global \relative c'

  {

    \stemDown <g' cs g'>4 <cs g'>~ |

     \override Stem.details.beamed-lengths = #'(1) <cs g'>8. <g cs g'>16 \revert Stem.Details <g cs g'>16 (<f cs' f>) <f cs' f> (<e cs' e>) |

  }

  \\

  {

    \skip 4 g'4~ |

    \once \override Flag.style = #'no-flag g'8. \skip 16 \skip 4 |

  }

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