2016-09-08 0:59 GMT+02:00 Trevor Daniels <t.dani...@treda.co.uk>: > 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
Not sufficiently, see the output of: { r1 \key cis \major \clef alto \time 2/2 \stopStaff \break \magnifyStaff #(magstep -3) \startStaff r1 } Cheers, Harm _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user