Re: \context for named Staff

[Alexander Kobel]

Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Just a small point: has anyone confirmed that -3 is a "standard" magstep?

Just my thought. I used some values between -2 and -3, depending on what 
fits for this very score and page size.

In "The Essential Dictionary of Music Notation" (Gerou and Lusk) - well, 
admittedly not quite the definitive reference, but at least something - 
they say that a solo instrument "staff above the grand staff is 
sometimes cue size", which they take to lie between 65 % and 75 % of the 
default size. In LilyPond, cue size defaults to magstep -4, so a scaling 
to about 63 %, right?

But I think it makes sense to introduce another variable and/or command 
like set-global-staff-size, say set-global-small-staff-magstep, with 
default -3 or -4, and use this value throughout?


Oh, and by the way... No experience for this on my side, but are there 
scores with small rhythmic or drum staffs? Then we should probably also 
have a SmallRhythmicStaff, SmallDrumStaff, SmallVaticanaStaff and so on, 
right?


Cheers,
Alexander