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Re: Font-relative-size


From: Mats Bengtsson
Subject: Re: Font-relative-size
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 17:35:08 +0100

> I didn't find any documentation of the aspects of the
> font-relative-size...
> Is it so that for music, setting relative-size 1 uses the "next" size...
> I.e. that is for Paper20 relative-size 1 uses font size 23?

That's the idea, yes.

> How about non notenames, i.e. scripts, chordnames, etc.?

It should work the same and produce symbols of matching size.

> If I want to calculate the fraction to use with i.e. #'staff-space from
> the font-relative-size, is it then so that in paper23 frs1 corresponds
> to 26/23 = 1.13 while in paper16 it corresponds to 20/16 = 1.25...?
> I could probably make a Scheme Function doing this, but will I be
> re-inventing the wheel? Have I misunderstood something?

I think that's the way it works today. An obvious extension would 
be to be able to specify a relative staff space that matches the 
relative font sizes.

     /Mats





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