Re: Setting staff size for individual scores

[Trevor Daniels]

Patrick

Thanks for raising this, but it is a known problem, see
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=216.

Do actually need different scores to have different
spacing?

Trevor

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick Karl" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2011 3:26 AM
Subject: Setting staff size for individual scores


> Reading the documentation in Notation:4.2.2:  Setting the staff 
> size,
> one thinks that one can set the staff size for all scores in an 
> input
> file by using the set-global-staff-size function, or one can set 
> the
> staff size for each individual score in an input file by using the
> layout-set-staff-size function.   Then comes the "Known issues and
> warnings" subsection: |layout-set-staff-size| does not change the
> distance between the staff lines.
>
> I find that a little confusing.  How can layout-set-staff-size 
> change
> the staff size without causing the distance between the staff 
> lines to
> change?  It appears that all layout-set-staff-size does is choose 
> the
> font(s) that would be needed for the specified staff size without
> changing the staff size at all.  One can produce some really ugly
> engraving with, e.g., the following snippet:
>
> music = \relative c' {
>         a b c d e f g a
> }
> \score {
>         \new Staff {  \music }
>         \layout { #(layout-set-staff-size 60) }
> }
>
> On the other hand, the following snippet produces beautiful 
> engraving:
>
> #(set-global-staff-size 60)
> music = \relative c' {
>         a b c d e f g a
> }
> \score {
>         \new Staff {  \music }
>         \layout {}
> }
>
> So, I guess my question is:  if set-global-staff-size can change 
> the
> distance between staff lines to match the fonts chosen, why can't
> layout-set-staff-size do the same?  Or, alternatively, why does
> layout-set-staff-size even exist if it can't do that?


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