Re: Printing titles at a consistent size

[Thomas Morley]

2015-01-18 22:38 GMT+01:00 David Sumbler <address@hidden>:
> On Sun, 2015-01-18 at 12:40 -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> > I am getting a bizarre result: the titles
>> > in the score are as specified in my version of bookTitleMarkup; but
>> > although the parts have the correct font-sizes, both vertical spacing of
>> > the lines and horizontal spacing of individual letters is abnormal, and
>> > is in proportion to the staff-size set.
>>
>> I don’t think (though am not 100% positive) that you can use both
>>
>>     #(set-global-staff-size 16)
>>
>> and
>>
>>     #(set-global-staff-size 20)
>>
>> in the same file, and expect it to behave rationally.
>>
>> n.b. I have different files entirely for my score and parts, because they 
>> almost always have such drastically different geometries, spacing 
>> parameters, etc.
>
> Well, it certainly doesn't seem to behave rationally!  I have tried all
> sorts of permutations and positioning of set-global-staff-size and
> bookTitleMarkup, and nothing I have tried works as I wish.
>
> This seems strange, because the Notation Reference says "To set the
> staff size globally for all scores in a file (or in a book block, to be
> precise), use set-global-staff-size."  This seems to imply that
> different global-staff-sizes can be used for different book blocks.
>
> This seemed to work perfectly: I found that set-global-staff-size only
> seems to work outside a book block, so I placed it immediately before
> the start of the relevant books.  And, until I started started trying to
> sort the titles out, it seemed to do exactly what I wanted it to.
>
> Since the problem with the titles arose, I have also tried using
> layout-set-staff-size and changing the font size of the music.  But this
> still leaves the spacing of the staves unchanged as well as the
> font-size of text marks.
>
> It seems perfectly normal to me to want smaller staves for the score and
> larger ones for the parts that actually have to be read by players, yet
> to have the titles appearing the same on both.  Is there really no
> straightforward way of achieving this in Lilypond?
>
> (I'm sure I never used to have this kind of difficulty in my days of
> using "Score"!)
>
> David



Hi David,

you would increase your chance for an early and meaningful answer, if
you'd post a minimal and _compilable_ code-example.

I tested putting #(set-global-staff-size ...) into different books in
the same file. It worked as documented in the NR up to 2.14.2
(although a warning was printed), 2.16 and above return strange
things.
Congratulations, you discovered a new bug (at least a quick glance on
the tracker offered no matching issue)

Nevertheless, I'd not use 'set-global-staff-size anyway.
With 2.19.15 you could use \magnifyStaff
or
http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1&id=862
may of some help as well

-Harm