Re: Making flags a bit thicker? Changing distance between key signature elements?

[Simon Albrecht]

On 30.05.2016 11:13, Stanislav wrote:
> Hello everybody!
> I have been developing tactile stave music notation for
> the visually impaired. I am going to make a score with
> subsequent milling on a CNC machine. Now I mainly
> use Musescore, which is a wonderful piece of software,
> but as of yet it cannot change the width of flags
> and change distance between key signature elements.
> Can those things be done in Lilypond?

Certainly they can.  The flags in their current shape are part of the 
music font, so it’s not quite easy to just make them thicker, but you 
can create a new ‘stencil’ (or someone on this list can) and replace the 
default one.  The other one is also feasible: do you mean the padding 
between individual accidentals in a key signature?

> In such case I would prepare the score in
> Musescore and then import it into
> Lilypond and do the rest.

Unfortunately, this is difficult. LilyPond has MusicXML import 
facilities, but they aren’t quite satisfactory and tend to require a lot 
of manual adjustments. There is ongoing work to improve this.

Best, Simon