Chris,
Have a look at
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Setting-the-staff-size#Setting-the-staff-size
A couple of notes:
placing #(set-global-staff-size 15.87) somewhere in your file will
change the size of the staff and scale scale all the fonts (music and
text, including fonts in the \header block) to match the smaller staff
(or bigger, as the case may be).
placing #(layout-set-staff-size 15.87) in the \layout block scales only
the music fonts and leaves the \header block fonts alone (at least, this
is true for 2.13.12).
This brings me to a question for the larger community and developers:
The wording of the command and the documentation would lead one to
believe that #(layout-set-staff-size 15.87) would affect the staff size
and the music font size when in fact, it only affects the music font
size. Of course, the staff can be made to match the music font by using
\override Staff.StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #0.8 for each instrument in
the score.
The two methods have different effects. Personally, I like being able to
reduce the music font size and staff size independently of each other,
and also like the \layout method because it doesn't change the scaling
of the \header fonts. Is this the desired behavior or a bug? If the
difference is intentional, then the documentation (and perhaps
eventually, the command wording) ought to be re-worked. It might be good
even to add another column to the chart in that section which gives the
scaling factors of the staff spaces for the Staff.StaffSymbol command
for the corresponding music font sizes.
I'd be happy to suggest a new wording for the documentation to make it
clear that the two methods differ in their results. I'm open to fixing
the documentation myself, if my non-technical brain can handle the
procedures.
David
Chris wrote:
Hi! Is it possible to change the staff size?
I found in the documentation only a command to change
the note size.
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