Re: Fixing a font size

[Graham Percival]

Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote:
> Here is how to scale only the staff and still leave your headings
> unaffected: (from a topic recently discussed here)

I'm glad that you're happy with the result, but I believe you are 
mistaken.  I think the example below makes the headings three font steps 
smaller than 20.  Try the below example with a global font size of 13 
and 26.

>  Also the "magstep"
> function should be more-clearly explained in the manual, I still dont know
> what it does really, but it works.

When you find out, let me know.  :)

> Also this technique is so fundamental to getting pages to look "right" that
> I think it should be part of the beginners tutorial.

As always, for documentation suggestions please see
http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/documentation-adding



#(set-global-staff-size 13)
#(set-global-staff-size 26)
\header {
        title = "My Dog Foo Foo"
}
\relative c'
<<
     \new Staff
     \with
     {
         fontSize = #-3
         \override StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #(magstep -3)
     }
     {
         \clef bass
         c8 c c c  c c c c
     }
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