Re: setting the font size for markups independently

[Marc Hohl]

Am 06.07.2011 11:58, schrieb -Eluze:
> Marc Hohl wrote:
> > Am 05.07.2011 18:17, schrieb -Eluze:
> > > [...]
> > > i think Kieren's solution works if you override the property of the
> > > TextScript in its real context which seems to be the Voice context:
> > >
> > > \layout {
> > >     \context {
> > >       \Voice
> > >       \override TextScript #'font-size = #-12
> > > } }
> > >
> > > hth
> > > Eluze
> > No, it is still not working. Attached are two minimal files which don't
> > show any difference in the font size regardless of the value for
> > abs-fontsize.
> >
> > \layout {
> >     \context {
> >        \Voice
> >        \override TextScript #'abs-fontsize = #100
> >     }
> > }
> > \version "2.15.5"
> >
> > \include "myinclude.ily"
> >
> > \markup {
> >    \wordwrap {
> >       This is a sample text.
> >    }
> > }
> you cannot use abs-fontsize to override TextScript properties, it seems to
> be reserved for text markups! (at least here i get an error or warning)
>
> but then i don't understand what you're looking for - do you want the
> markups in the scores (i.e. attached to notes) to have the same size or do
> you want all markups between music parts to have the same size (or both)?
I want markups between music parts to have a fixed (absolute) font size,
whereas the music parts can be scaled according to my needs.

As far as I understand, Neil explained that this is only possible by
redefining the markup definition within scm/markup.scm:

>  I don't think this is possible without redefining interpret-markup
>  directly inside scm/makup.scm, i.e.,
>
>  (define-public (interpret-markup layout props arg)
>     (ly:text-interface::interpret-markup layout props
>  (make-abs-fontsize-markup 12 arg)))
>
>  It is possible to redefine interpret-markup inside a .ly file, but
>  you'll find top-level markup ignores the new settings since
>  interpret-markup-list will still use the original definition (it's
>  defined directly following interpret-markup, and gets called from C++
>  when generating paper-book output).

So I inserted \abs-fontsize everywhere, and now it works.
It is a bit clumsy, and I had to define my own
\hspace-mm, \vspace-mm, epsfile-mm and \with-dimensions-mm
as well, which work exactly like their normal counterparts, but expect
millimeters as units (and therefore don't scale with the staff spacing).

Regards,

Marc



> cheers
> Eluze