Re: Measurement units for Stem Length (and in general)

[Mats Bengtsson]

Unrelated to your question, why don't you use

\override NoteHead #'style = #'cross

instead of the complicated setting of stencil + text to get
the cross? See
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Note-heads#Special-note-heads

  /Mats

Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> I've started doing some simple exercises to acquaint myself with the Lilypond syntax.  In the following snippet I try to change the second notehead to an x and make the stem connect properly: 
>
> \version "2.11.61"
>
> \relative c' {
>     \time 4/4
>     c
>     \once \override  NoteHead #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print
>     \once \override  Stem #'Y-offset = #0.15
>     \once \override  Stem #'length = #6.85
>     \once \override  NoteHead #'text = #(markup #:musicglyph 
> "noteheads.s2cross")
>     d e f |
> }
>
>      I'm confused why the stem length shouldn't normally be 3 for a stem that spans three spaces.  
> In the Internals Reference for stem, the unit for the setting "length" is given as 
> "dimension, in staff space."  How is that different than a number?
>      Is there a reference table somewhere that lists the units of measurement 
> used by Lilypond?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jonathan
>
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