Re: Making Large-Print Music

[Mats Bengtsson]

For the record, this is an example of the output of the
latest development version using
#(set-global-staff-size 42)

As Han-Wen has pointed out, the line thickness hasn't been scaled
properly but it's very simple to use and maybe you consider it
good enough anyway.

   /Mats

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
>
> > OK, can I do something to scale up the fonts and other symbols to get 
> > larger sized music that looks good? You guys got the fonts up to 26pt. 
> > How did you do it?
> >
> > I eventually want non-technical people to be able to use Lilypond to 
> > generate large-print music and Braille from the text input. Using dvips 
> > to scale the music is clumsy at best.
>
>
> I fear that the output of a font designed at 42 pt will look much
> worse.  FWIW, you could also scale the PS document using pstops.

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