David, that is very nice, thank you!

I'll get Dusty Miller up there soon; it has been on my list of tunes to
learn for too long.

john

On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 1:19 AM, Flaming Hakama by Elaine <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 10:24 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: john ware <[email protected]>
>> To: lilypond-user <[email protected]>
>> Cc:
>> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 11:13:50 -0700
>> Subject: How to set the font size for the repeat symbol.
>> Hi, I am using lilypond to generate scores(with chord names) and chord
>> charts all from the same source. And what a wonderful tool you have created.
>>
>> The chord chart is simply the score with only the chord names and bar
>> lines visible. And the chord names are shifted down between the bar lines.
>>
>> I am able to set the size of the BarLine's with bar-extent and the size
>> of the ChordName's with font-size.
>>
>> My issue is, when I do this the colon for the repeat symbol does not
>> resize. So, I get big bar lines and a tiny colon for the repeat.
>>
>> Here's my tiny example:
>>
>> \version "2.14.2"
>>
>> \score {
>>      \new ChordNames \with {
>>      \override BarLine #'bar-extent = #'(-1 . 20)
>>      \override ChordName #'font-size = #20
>>      \override ChordName #'extra-offset = #'(0 . -1)
>>      \consists "Bar_engraver"
>>      }
>>      {
>>        \relative a' {
>>          \chordmode {
>>            \partial 4  s4
>>            \repeat volta 2 { a1 g c a  }
>>          }}}}
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> And, if you are interested, the results of this project can be viewed at:
>>
>> http://boulderhomegrown.com/fiddletunes
>>
>> There are scores, chord charts and lilypond synthesized audio tracks at
>> different tempos for each tune.
>>
>> The issue described above can be seen at the site given.
>>
>> thank you for your time,
>>
>> john ware
>>
>>
>
> I suppose this problem arises since the repeat sign is moreso part of the
> staff than a text colon.
>
> you could scale the entire staff to the desired size and avoid fiddling
> with the font.
>
> I also removed two levels of nesting unnecessary for this demo, the  {
> \relative a' { } }
>
> Nice work on your site.  Any chance of seeing Dusty Miller up there?
>
>
> \version "2.14.2"
>
> #(set-global-staff-size 60)
>
> \score {
>     \new ChordNames \with {
>         \override BarLine #'bar-extent = #'(-1 . 1)
>         \override ChordName #'extra-offset = #'(0 . -1)
>         \consists "Bar_engraver"
>     }
>     \chordmode {
>         \partial 4  s4
>         \repeat volta 2 { a1 g c a  }
>     }
> }
>
>
> HTH
>
> David Elaine Alt
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