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

[David Kastrup]

Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 30.05.2016 um 11:13 schrieb Stanislav:
>> 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 chance distance between key signature elements. 
>> Can those things be done in Lilypond? 
>> In such case I would prepare the score in 
>> Musescore and then import it into 
>> Lilypond and do the rest.
>> Please help! 
>> 
>
> I've once used
>
> \override LyricText.stencil =
>     #(lambda (grob)
>        (ly:stencil-scale (lyric-text::print grob) 0.9 1))
>
> to fake a condensed lyrics font.
> Maybe this could be applied to flags as well?

In the current developer version, I'd likely prefer

\override LyricText.stencil =
   #(grob-transformer 'stencil
      (lambda (grob old) (ly:stencil-scale old 0.9 1)))

since it does not require knowing the old definition.

-- 
David Kastrup