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Here is how to change the stems direction without affecting rests.

The text used for crescendos and decrescendos can be changed by modifying the context properties crescendoText and decrescendoText.

The style of the spanner line can be changed by modifying the 'style property of DynamicTextSpanner. The default value is 'dashed-line, and other possible values include 'line, 'dotted-line and 'none.

It is possible to change the default gap between the ambitus noteheads and the line joining them.

The appearance of slurs may be changed from solid to dotted or dashed.

Normally accidentals are printed automatically where needed, but it is also possible to force them to be printed. A reminder accidental can be forced by adding an exclamation mark after the pitch. A cautionary accidental (i.e. an accidental within parentheses) can be obtained by adding a question mark after the pitch.

The size of cautionary accidentals can be changed and the parentheses removed if required.

Suggested accidentals are a part of ancient music (known as annotational accidentals) and are printed above the note. Their size can also be changed and paretheses added if desired.

How to change the size or shape of the small eight (or whatever number) appears in the ClefModifier.

The glyph of the breath mark can be tuned by overriding the text property of the BreathingSign layout object with any markup text.

The english naming of chords (default) can be changed to german (\germanChords replaces B and Bes with H and B) or semi-german (\semiGermanChords replaces B and Bes with H and Bb).

Default bar lines can be changed when re-defined in a score context.

The default font families for text can be overridden with make-pango-font-tree.