Re: Shrinking a part with its lyrics

[Trevor Daniels]

David Wright wrote Sunday, December 06, 2015 11:11 PM


> Hi, I sometimes set an accompanist's copy (merging/separating the
> pedal, unfolding repeats, improving pageturns etc) and reduce the
> pagecount by shrinking the vocal parts. The lyrics say it all: I'm
> perplexed as to why they remain at full size in just the last
> fragment. The notes shrink, as does the instrumentName, but not
> the lyrics.

Because the Lyrics context is a child of the ChoirStaff context
but is not a child of the Staff context.  So properties assigned
to ChoirStaff are passed down to Lyrics, but this does not happen
for properties assigned to Staff.

Trevor