Hi Urs I think \magnifyStaff would do this. See http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/setting-the-staff-size
Trevor ----- Original Message ----- From: "Urs Liska" <u...@openlilylib.org> To: "lilypond-user" <lilypond-user@gnu.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2016 11:40 PM Subject: changing staff-size throughout a score > Hi all, > > is it possible to change the size of the StaffSymbol along the way > through a score? My impression is that > > \override Score.StaffSymbol.staff-space > > has an effect only when applied in a \with block or at the very first > start of a Staff. > > However, I don't see a reason for that behaviour. Can't the size of each > system through a score be different? > > The use case for this request is the common practice to engrave > individual pages of a score at smaller staff size when it is too crowded. > > If that's not possible with current LilyPond tools, is it conceivable to > implement it newly? I imagine a behaviour that is analogous to other > overrides: affect the next instance of the grob. > > (like > > c8 [ d \override Beam.color = #red e f ] > > will affect the *next* beam). > > So > > \override Staff.StaffSymbol.staff-space > > could take effect starting with the next starting system. > > I'd be happy about any working solution or an estimate how complicated > this would be to add to LilyPond. I'm sure this would be a very useful > addition. > > Best > Urs > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user