I was looking for a way to change the font size of the lyrics in choir music
Looking around I came across a page describing a command 'fontsize' for use in markup sections http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/font On this page it is described that many font properties can be accessed via \override followed by dot notation http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/learning/using-variables-for-layout-adjustments Example: \override Lyrics.LyricText.font-shape = #'italic Hmmmm, I figured it would be worth a shot to try a font size override in the layout block first I tried: \layout { Lyrics.LyricText.fontsize = #-1 } that gave an error, so I tried the other one: \layout { Lyrics.LyricText.font-size = #-1 } Bingo! My question is: Is there documentation of what number I should give to get a particular decrease or increase in font size? There is this page: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/internals/lyrictext From the above page: The font size, compared to the ‘normal’ size. 0 is style-sheet’s normal size, -1 is smaller, +1 is bigger. Each step of 1 is approximately 12% larger; 6 steps are exactly a factor 2 larger. Fractional values are allowed. But that is not what I'm getting. I tried this: \layout { Lyrics.LyricText.font-size = #-1 } That reduced the lyrics font size to less than half of the default size, by the looks of it. Next I tried this: \layout { Lyrics.LyricText.font-size = #-0.2 } I estimate that gave me about 3/4 of the default font size. So I can sort of dial it in by trial and error, but of course it would be great to know the exact formula. Colin Tennyson -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Lyrics-LyricText-font-size-in-layout-block-tp192840.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user