> Can you give me a short hint on how to change the font size of an > individual staff? I must have missed the starting point of that > feature... You set the property Staff.fontSize to -1 or -2 to get smaller symbols and the property Staff.staffLineLeading to decrease the distance between the individual lines of the staff (default is 5, i.e. 20/4, i.e. staff height/number of gaps). See the Reference Manual and the example in lilypond-1.1.xx/input/test/staff-size.ly). /Mats