Re: With \markup { \score { can I separately control the score size?

[Simon Albrecht]

Am 29.06.2014 19:10, schrieb Paul Morris:
> Hi all,
>
> Is this way of scaling a score (by putting it inside a markup) the best way
> to do it, if you want to keep all of the proportions strictly consistent at
> different sizes?
>
> The approach in the staffSize snippet does not keep the proportions
> consistent, which becomes apparent at larger sizes (perhaps this should be
> noted in the snippet text).  The set-global-staff-size approach also seems
> to leave the staff lines and stems proportionally thinner at larger sizes.
… which is a good thing, since it preserves the optical impression 
instead of keeping the numerical proportions.
If the proportions would remain the same independent of the staff size, 
small staves would look too light and be more difficult to read, and 
large staves would become too heavy and appear clumsy.
It’s the same with text fonts, by the way: high quality typefaces (e.g. 
the TeX standard Latin Modern font as used also in LilyPond) usually 
have different shapes for different font sizes. Thus large headers get 
thinner lines, more detail etc. and small annotations or whatever get 
broader lines and less detail for the sake of legibility and a 
consistent visual appearance.