Re: Enhancement: Take ‘master’ line thickness from a context property [was: Re: list of thicknesses…]

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Simon,

> 

Thanks for that!

Best,
Kieren.


Kieren MacMillan, composer
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Enhancement: Take ‘master’ line thickness from a context property [was: Re: list of thicknesses…]

[Simon Albrecht]

On 31.01.2016 23:15, Simon Albrecht wrote:

On 31.01.2016 22:34, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
Ultimately, my goal is to be able to design stylesheets that match 
certain “house styles” (e.g., Hanle, Chappell & Co., Peters). I find 
that many plate-engraved scores appear to have a slightly heavier 
overall look to the staff lines, so I wanted to increase them without 
necessarily increasing the others proportionally.


I agree, by default the staff lines look rather light in LilyPond. 
Perhaps you can make a point if you statistically show that 
hand-engraved scores use to have thicker staff lines in relation to 
other line thicknesses, such as to convince ‘the developers’ that we 
should change the default.
In the meantime, I do think that it should be easier to override staff 
line thickness in a style sheet without changing other line 
thicknesses. And it really makes sense to have a context property 
‘lineThickness’ as ‘master’ line thickness, instead of a grob property 
StaffSymbol.thickness. I’ll submit that as an enhancement request.




Yours, Simon

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