Re: fine-tuning Lyrics size

[Valentin Villenave]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Alexander Kobel <address@hidden> wrote:
> You can use decimal values (well, actually every real value if you really
> want to), and the default 'font-size for Lyrics is 1, not 0 (as would be
> expected).

> { c'4 c' c' c' }
> \addlyrics { Uh la la la }
> \addlyrics { \override LyricText #'font-size = #'0.9 Uh la la la }
> \addlyrics { \override LyricText #'font-size = #'0.8 Uh la la la }
> \addlyrics { \override LyricText #'font-size = #(sqrt (/ 1. 2)) Uh la la la}
> \addlyrics { \override LyricText #'font-size = #'0.7 Uh la la la }
> \addlyrics { \override LyricText #'font-size = #'0.6 Uh la la la }
> \addlyrics { \override LyricText #'font-size = #'0.5 Uh la la la }
> \addlyrics { \override LyricText #'font-size = #'0.4 Uh la la la }
> \addlyrics { \override LyricText #'font-size = #'0.3 Uh la la la }
> \addlyrics { \override LyricText #'font-size = #'0.2 Uh la la la }
> \addlyrics { \override LyricText #'font-size = #'0.1 Uh la la la }
> \addlyrics { \override LyricText #'font-size = #'0.0 Uh la la la }
> \addlyrics { \override LyricText #'font-size = #'-0.1 Uh la la la }
> \addlyrics { \override LyricText #'font-size = #'-0.2 Uh la la la }
> \addlyrics { \override LyricText #'font-size = #'-0.3 Uh la la la }
> \addlyrics { \override LyricText #'font-size = #'-0.4 Uh la la la }
> \addlyrics { \override LyricText #'font-size = #'-0.5 Uh la la la }
> \addlyrics { \override LyricText #'font-size = #'-0.6 Uh la la la }
> \addlyrics { \override LyricText #'font-size = #'-0.7 Uh la la la }
> \addlyrics { \override LyricText #'font-size = #'-0.8 Uh la la la }
> \addlyrics { \override LyricText #'font-size = #'-0.9 Uh la la la }
> \addlyrics { \override LyricText #'font-size = #'-1.0 Uh la la la }

Best. Score. Ever. :-D

Have you considered adding it to the LSR? I think it would be quite
useful. If you do (maybe in a slightly shorter version :), please add
the tags "Vocal" and "docs"; Trevor and I are precisely working on
this section of the docs.

Cheers,
Valentin