Re: override lyric font size

[Dmytro O. Redchuk]

У чт, 2010-01-14 у 12:16 +0000, Gerard McConnell пише:
> Hello,
> Here I want to change the font size of the lyrics.  I've placed 
>  
>     \override #' font-size = # -2
>  
> before \addlyrics, just after it, inside the brackets, and various
> other
> combinations with << >>.  How do I make the lyrics smaller here? 

You can override font-size in \layout block:

\layout {
  ragged-right = ##f

  \context {
    \Score
      \override LyricText #'font-size = #-2
  }
}

> And probably more important, is there a way I should be looking at
> this
> problem that will allow me to figure similar ones out by myself?
You can use explicitly instantiated named contexts and set font-size on
per-context basic, see below.

> (example: I can't figure out why the extra { } is required inside
> \score { }.)
>  
> \version "2.12.2"
>  
> \layout {
>     ragged-right = ##f
> }
> \score {
>    {
>        \set Staff.instrumentName = "1"
>        \clef bass
>        \time 2/4
>        \relative c {
>                     c8 c c4  d8  d  d4  e8 e e4   c2 \bar "|."
>        }
>  
>        \addlyrics {One and Two One and Two }
>    }
> }

\score {
  \new Staff <<
    \set Staff.instrumentName = "1"
    \clef bass
    \time 2/4
    \new Voice = "melody" {
      \relative c {
        c8 c c4  d8  d  d4  e8 e e4   c2 \bar "|."
      }
    }
    \new Lyrics \with {
      \override LyricText #'font-size = #-2
    } \lyricsto "melody" { One and Two One and Two }
  >>
}

(You can use variables for melody and lyrics to have cleaner \score
block).

> Thanks,
> Gerard



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