On Sun 06 Dec 2015 at 23:49:57 (-0000), Trevor Daniels wrote: > David Wright wrote Sunday, December 06, 2015 11:11 PM > > Hi, I sometimes set an accompanist's copy (merging/separating the > > pedal, unfolding repeats, improving pageturns etc) and reduce the > > pagecount by shrinking the vocal parts. The lyrics say it all: I'm > > perplexed as to why they remain at full size in just the last > > fragment. The notes shrink, as does the instrumentName, but not > > the lyrics. > > Because the Lyrics context is a child of the ChoirStaff context > but is not a child of the Staff context. So properties assigned > to ChoirStaff are passed down to Lyrics, but this does not happen > for properties assigned to Staff.
OK, thanks; I've got some reading to do on inheritance. (I'm trying to learn a bit more about the way LP is organised rather than just boilerplating together what seems to work. Perhaps eventually I'll even get into scheme a bit.) Cheers, David. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
