Re: Global resizing for grace notes dynamics

[Edward Neeman]

On 5/28/11 7:01 AM, Karim Barkati wrote:

Hi list!

I'm currently engraving a score using Lilypond, so first of all: thank you for your wonderful software!
In this contemporary score, there are many grace notes with one dynamic per note, so that having smaller dynamics on grace notes would definitely make this score look better.
Is there a way to specify globally a (smaller) size for grace notes dynamics? 

I wish Lily had something like this:
\override Voice.graceDynamics #'size = #'smaller
\grace{ a8\p [ gis8\mp ]}

For the moment, I think I would have to specify the size for each grace note, right?
\grace{
    a8_\markup{\tiny \dynamic p}
    [ gis8_\markup{\tiny \dynamic mp} ]}

Best regards,

- Karim Barkati
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I think you should try something like this:

%%% How to get smaller Dynamics on grace notes
\version "2.12.3"

startGraceMusic = { \override DynamicText #'font-size = #-5 }
stopGraceMusic = { \revert DynamicText #'font-size }

\relative c'' {
     \grace { c8 \mf b \f } c2 \pp
}

Best,
Edward