Stem_engraver - LilyPond program-reference
Description: LilyPond program-reference

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#### Stem_engraver

Create stems and single-stem tremolos. It also works together with the beam engraver for overriding beaming.

Music types accepted:

tremolo-event

Properties (read)

`tremoloFlags` (integer)
  Number of tremolo flags to add if no number is specified.
`stemLeftBeamCount` (integer)
  Specify the number of beams to draw on the left side of the next note. Overrides automatic beaming. The value is only used once, and then it is erased.
`stemRightBeamCount` (integer)
  See `stemLeftBeamCount`.

This engraver creates the following layout objects: Stem and StemTremolo.

`Stem_engraver` is part of contexts: CueVoice, DrumVoice, GregorianTranscriptionVoice, MensuralVoice, TabVoice and Voice

This page is for LilyPond-2.8.8 (stable-branch).

Other languages: English.
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