Re: Shrinking a part with its lyrics

[David Wright]

On Sun 06 Dec 2015 at 23:49:57 (-0000), Trevor Daniels wrote:
> 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.

OK, thanks; I've got some reading to do on inheritance. (I'm trying to
learn a bit more about the way LP is organised rather than just
boilerplating together what seems to work. Perhaps eventually I'll
even get into scheme a bit.)

Cheers,
David.