RE: FW: MultiMeasureRest font-size

[Fairchild]

Mats -

No substantive argument.  Certainly not a high priority thing.  Just seems
nice for consistency and completeness.

                           - Bruce

-----Original Message-----
From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 11:30 AM
To: Fairchild
Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden
Subject: Re: FW: MultiMeasureRest font-size


Can you motivate a situation where it is interesting to
change that size. The (vertical) length of the end lines
is now determined as twice the separation between two staff lines, according
to normal typesetting practice. If you change the size of the stave itself,
this length should automatically be adjusted correspondingly, so there's no
reason to use the font-size to adjust to such a situation (in contrast to
ordinary rests or note heads). Maybe it could be useful for cue notes, but I
cannot recall how it's done in printed scores (don't even know if I have
ever seen a "church rest" in a cue).

    /Mats

Fairchild wrote:
> This thread inspires a feature request.
> 
> In v 2.4.3, simple MultiMeasure rests can only be scaled piecewise.  
> Please implement font-size for MultiMeasureRest so it is effective for 
> simple rests as well as church rests.
> 
> If this is not possible, at least add length of the vertical end lines 
> and length of the horizontal bar to the handles now available.
> 
> See: 
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond-inter
> nals/M
> ultiMeasureRest.html#MultiMeasureRest
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>                                      - Bruce
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ruud van Silfhout [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 3:04 PM
> To: Fairchild
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: MultiMeasureRest font-size
> 
> 
> Bruce,
> 
> AFAICT from the code there is no such property. You could send in a
> feature request  :-)
> 
> Ruud
> 
> Fairchild wrote:
> 
> 
>>Ruud -
>>
>>Thanks for the pointer.
>>
>>It seems that font-size for simple MultiMeasureRest has at least three
>>components.  Horizontal bar thickness is controlled with \override 
>>MultiMeasureRest #'thick-thickness and thickness of vertical bars at 
>>ends with \override MultiMeasureRest #'hair-thickness.  Still haven't 
>>found the third wanted component: length of vertical end bars.
>>
>>                                 - Bruce
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Ruud van Silfhout [mailto:address@hidden
>>Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 7:44 AM
>>To: Fairchild
>>Cc: address@hidden
>>Subject: Re: MultiMeasureRest font-size
>>
>>
>>Bruce,
>>
>>Apart from a MultiMeasureRest object, also a MultiMeasureRestNumber 
>>object and a MultiMeasureRestText object exists. You can find this 
>>information in the program reference 
>>http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond-inter
>>nals/
> 
> Multi_005fmeasure_005frest_005fengraver.html#Multi_005fmeasure_005fres
> t_005f
> e
> 
>>ngraver
>>when you change the line
>>   \override MultiMeasureRest #'font-size = #6
>>into  
>>   \override MultiMeasureRestNumber #'font-size = #6
>>the number above is scaled accordingly.
>>
>>Ruud.
>>
>>Fairchild wrote:
>>
>> 
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>>
>>>What's the clue for changing font size of simple multimeasure rests?
>>>
>>>\override MultiMeasureRest #'font-size = #6
>>>
>>>controls church rests, but doesn't effect the simple style in the 
>>>attached example, which expands the snippet in 8.2.3 of the user 
>>>manual.
>>>
>>>                                 - Bruce
>>>
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