Re: Shrink all elements?

[Paul Scott]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 02:09:42PM -0500, Christopher Meredith 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?

Change the global-staff-size:

#(set-global-staff-size xx.x)

HTH

Paul Scott