Re: Shrink all elements?

[Roman Stawski]

Christopher Meredith <chmeredith <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> I've searched, I swear. If there's a really simple answer, I apologize
> in advance!
> 
> I'm looking for a way to simply shrink everything to make it easier to
> fit on a page. My first lines of defense are usually shrinking the
> distance between staves, decreasing the minimum distance between
> lyrics, and increasing the margins. But it occurs to me that the music
> would still be perfectly readable if it were all smaller. In Finale,
> there was a percentage tool that you could use to just scale
> everything to, say, 90%. Is there a lilypond equivalent?
> 
> Thanks!
> 


See Section 4.2.1 in the notation manual:

#(set-global-staff-size xx)

or 

\layout{
  #(layout-set-staff-size xx)
}

which might be useful