[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I'm finding that the note heads of Lily, although gorgeous for
> adagios etc., are a bit too, well, voluptuous for Scarlatti when he
> loads the page up with 2nds and 3rds. For these pieces, I'd like to
> change the ratio of notehead to linespacing *slightly* (e.g. 5% or
> so), just enough that there is a separation between 3rds and that
> 2nds be closer to a 45 degree angle.
>
> I suspect that the best way of doing this is to change staff vertical
> dimensions rather than notehead size - am I right? In the refman, it
> says to use interline for this, but when I look at the param.ly and
> paper*.ly stuff, it seems that everything is calculated from
> staffheight, including interline. So, if in fact I want to increase
> interline from the default (paper20.ly) 5 pt to, say 5.25 pt, is this
> the proper way of doing it? (in the paper block of course) Or, should
> I set staffheight to 21 pt? Or, is there a better way of doing it
> that will stay compatible with Lily in the future?
Staffheight should be calculated from interline, so that is a bug.
But are you sure that you really want everything to change size? Or do
you want to change \property Staff.staffLineLeading ?
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