Re: Ledger line sizes - a question from simple curiosity

[Jean Abou Samra]

Hello Paul,

One minor point: when asking a new question, please start a new thread
in your mail client. Replying to an existing thread looks like it will
do the trick if you change the subject, but the email actually contains
internal headers that make it appear in the same thread for recipients
(you can observe this in the archives at
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2022-04/threads.html).

Le 12/04/2022 à 01:15, Paul Hodges a écrit :
> When specifying the thickness of ledger lines in LilyPond, one 
> specifies not one but two multipliers, so that the result is 
> proportionate to both staff line thickness and staff spacing.  E.g. 
> (from the manual):
>     \override StaffSymbol.ledger-line-thickness = #'(0.5 . 0.4)
> For my own use I've simply used the first number to specify what I 
> want and made the second 0.0 which seems to do fine.
>
> I'm just wondering why a single proportion was considered insufficient...


This property is not just for user tweaks, but more importantly
allows LilyPond to provide a default. The default is '(1.0 . 0.1),
which makes the ledger thickness scale with both staff space
and line thickness. You can change the staff space and line thickness
independently, and the ledger line thickness will respond to both.

Best,
Jean