Re: violin/strings double-stopping

[Graham Percival]

Please keep email traffic on the mailist, so that other people can 
benefit from the answers.

To make notes smaller, you can use  \tiny, \small, and \normalsize.  
These are handy ways of changing the font size; for example,
tiny = \set fontSize = #-2
(you can guess how to make notes larger than normal)

Use them like this:
<< {\tiny d'} \\ <fis a> >>

- Graham

On 24-Apr-06, at 3:11 AM, bears388 wrote:

> Dear Graham,
>
> Thanks for your stupendously quick answer!
> I understand about using chords, though I tried this but couldn't make 
> it work. Hence my query!
>
> Another question! Using the chord system as suggested to create a 
> double-stopping, how do I make the double-stopped notes smaller than 
> the main one? In the violin part I am using to notate a full score, 
> the double-stop is about the same size as a grace note. Do I use a 
> command \small, \tiny, \teeny or what? Or something altogether 
> different?
>
> Thanks, once again.
> Michael.