Re: Making Large-Print Music

[Ruven Gottlieb]

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> address@hidden writes:
>  
>
> > If you upgrade to a recent development version of LilyPond,
> > you may actually say
> > #(set-global-staff-size 42)
> > to obtain exactly what you ask for.
> >    
I've upgraded to Lilypond 2.1.25. I tried "#(set-global-staff-size 42)" 
and it's very good. Thanks.

> Probably not, because the staff-lines aren't scaled up as much,
> causing mismatches between the font and the staff. I recommend your
> original approach.
>  
I tried to add something to adjust the line thickness, as shown in 
Notation Manual/Global Layout/Vertical Spacing:

**********
...The piano staves are handled a little differently: to make 
cross-staff beaming work correctly, it is necessary that the distance 
between staves is fixed beforehand...
...If you want to override this, use a |\translator| block as follows:

      \translator {
        \PianoStaffContext
        VerticalAlignment \override #'forced-distance = #9
        }

**********
But I don't know where to put the /translator block. I can't find 
anything that illustrates how to use it, and no matter where I put it in 
an input file, I get error messages.

Unfortunately, much of the documentation assumes a very high level of 
understanding of programming in general, and of the Lilypond internals 
in particular.

You are making good progress with many "cookbook" illustrations, and I 
could use one for this bit. :-)

Thanks for your help.

Ruven