Manu Morin,

I suppose that you already, in Document Options - Beams > Beaming Style, have selected {Flatten All Beams}, right?

I suppose that you, by your word “length”, mean “vertical position”, right?

Perhaps you were thinking of “stem length”?

I suppose that you are talking about up-stem notes only (not down-stem notes), right?

Unfortunately I do not know of an “automatic” solution.

Adjusting with the Beam Angle Tool (at a high zoom percentage) is the general solution.

Watch the Message Bar to see the actual beam position.

Some ideas:

1) For the program’s Measurement Units, choose small units - like Points, or EVPUs.

The height of a staff is 24pt, hence the height of a scale step is 3pt.

2) Go to Document Options - Stems,

and set both the Normal Stem Length and the Shortened Stem Length to an integer multiple of 3pt (like 15pt, 18pt, 21pt).

Hi Peter,

Thanks for your quick answer!

I confirm that "Beaming Style" was set to Flatten All Beams!

I also confirm that I was talking about up-stem notes only.

I tested your 2 ideas, but as I thought, ALL stems are getting longer or shorter based on the "highest notehead" in the group of notes beamed together... 

As you can see in the following screen captures, even if I put a higher number under "normal or shortened stem lenght", the problem remains... and the beams contained in the first 6 pulses still show a different lenght than the following measures...

With Normal Stem Lenght and Shortened Stem Lenght set to 21: This is what it looks like

With Normal Stem Lenght and Shortened Stem Lenght set to 15: This is what it looks like

It seems to me that the Stem Lenght is set according to a reference point which seems to be the "Highest Note of each pulse" - In my example, this is usually the Hi-Hat notes or the Crash notes as it is a Drumset Notation.

One solution that I think would solve the problem would to be able to change this reference point to a fixed point on the staff, or maybe the LOWER note of each pulse - which would usually be the Snare Notes in my case!

But I don't know if this is possible or not...

(I hope I am clear... English is not my first language, so thanks for your understanding! 😅)

Again, thanks for your help Peter! Let me know if you have any other ideas! I'm all ears! 😁

Hi Manu,

Silly me!

In my first post I wrote “Unfortunately I do not know of an “automatic” solution”.

But I do know of an automatic solution:

Staff Tool.

Double-click the staff.

In the Staff Attributes, in the pane Items to display, go to Stems, and click the button {Stem Settings…}.

I think the dialog box Staff Stem Settings is quite clear and understandable, but if you are having difficulties, let me know.

Peter! You're definitely the man here!

You can't believe how much time this is going to save me in the weeks and months to come!

I can't thank you enough!

This worked like a charm! Fantastic!