Re: LilyPond 2.1.2 released

[Mats Bengtsson]

In addition to the situation Erik describes, I can think of two
other main uses of this feature:

- Cue notes within an instrumental part (=> the size change should
  only apply to a specific Voice, not to all the Staff).

- Scores where one or more of the staves should be typeset in smaller
  size, typically a piano part of an instrumental sonata.
  In this situation, it would be nice to set the size of both the
  staff-space of the StaffSymbol and the size of all the objects
  within the stave with a single command.

In all these three situations, I think it is reasonable that the
thickness of beams and slurs is scaled accordingly.

   /Mats


Erik Sandberg wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 December 2003 18.41, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
>
> > address@hidden writes:
> >
> > > Sounds great! I hope it's possible to set the size of all objects
> > > in a Staff, for example, using something similar to
> > > \property Staff.fontSize = #0.857
> >
> > For variable symbols (like beam & slur), it's not immediately clear
> > what such a statement should do. Do you want the thickness of those
> > being scaled together according to the font-size setting?
>
>
> The most natural thing (in my eyes) would be that all objects would be scaled 
> in the same way as they are by \include "paperXX.ly". I.e., if paperXX scales 
> (or is supposed to scale) everything linearly, then it would be most useful 
> with a command that does exactly this. Instead of forcing the user to have 
> control, he/she could just trust the default scaling behaviour (i.e.: if, for 
> some reason, some objects belonging to the staff should _not_ be scaled 
> linearly according to the engraving standards in the real world, then this 
> should in the long run be reflected in the way this command would act).
>
> I suppose this command could need to change both something like Staff.fontsize 
> and a number of other properties, as you say..
>
> Also, in the long run it would be great to have a command that has exactly the 
> effect of \include "paperXX.ly" but which works on continuous values of XX 
> (this the feature I miss most in lilypond right now: the ability to fairly 
> easily scale a score to fit in exactly two pages).
>
> Erik

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