re: change markup note size

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> followup to my own post:
> 
> while the notation manual states: "\note log dots dir" with a note
> explaining that the third value refers to the stem direction (+1 is up and
> -1 is down), it does not tell us what i have just discovered: the third
> value ALSO controls stem length and position.
> 
> \markup { \magnify #3  \note #2 #0 #3 } yields a 3x-sized note with
> correct position/length of the stem.
> 
> \markup { \magnify #0.5 \note #2 #0 #0.5 } yields a 0.5x-sized note with
> correct position/length of the stem.
> 
> a negative third value flips the note upside down, and still corrects the
> stem length.

good trick, I didn't think of that one.

> unfortunately, the stem thickness is unaffected, so the range of values
> for which this method will create a useful result is limited.

The thickness is coded at 0.13 ss (see note-markup function in
scm/new-markup.scm) - I'll have a  think. Probably the thickness of
brackets and lines should be tunable too.

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