Re: Shrink all elements?

[Brett McCoy]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Christopher Meredith
<address@hidden> wrote:
> 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?

You probably want to read this section:

http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Setting-the-staff-size#Setting-the-staff-size

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Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.electricminstrel.com
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