Opinions: expressive text and markup sizes

[Ben]

Hello everyone,

I was wondering if I could get some feedback and opinions on something that's been on my mind today. I've been working for a while now on a small set of chamber pieces (score & parts = letter-size) and my eyes are playing tricks on me I think...

Question: what are you all using for your markup font sizes for expressive and technique texts in your scores? For instance, pizz, simile, sempre, etc.

Are you using \italic? \abs-fontsize or \fontsize? \teeny?

As I prepare to work on more large scale works (11x17 score, letter parts), I've been reconsidering my style sheet and markup size choices, so I was curious what you all do in your projects. Do you scale them all up or...my eyes are wonky, the more I stare at the page the more I have no idea what I'm thinking. ;)

Thanks for any feedback! Hope you're having a great weekend.