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

[Paul Morris]

Simon Albrecht-2 wrote
>> 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.

Hi Simon,  You're right, and I didn't mean to imply that there was anything
wrong with set-global-staff-size.  I do find that at larger sizes (like 1.75
times or 2 times as large) I prefer the results of the strict scaling I get
with Inkscape to the results of set-global-staff-size (where the lines and
stems look too thin to me).  That's a size of 35 or 40, whereas the largest
size the feta font is optimized for is 25.2:

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/setting-the-staff-size

So I wonder whether the proportions have been fine-tuned for sizes much
larger than that?  I should probably use set-global-staff-size at 25.2 and
then use Inkscape to scale up from there.  

(Why such large staves?  For posting SVG images online.)

Cheers,
-Paul



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