On Wed, 2022-02-09 at 09:42 -0700, Abraham Lee wrote: > Hey, Richard! > > On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 9:13 AM Richard Shann > <rich...@rshann.plus.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 2022-02-09 at 13:00 +0000, Valentin Petzel wrote: > > > Hello Richard, > > > > > > I do not like to say such things, but read the docs: > > > > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/notation/setting-the-staff-size > > > > > > set-global-staff-size is by definition used to set the staffsize > > > globally. For affecting one specific score you want to use > > layout- > > > set-staff-size. > > > > I perhaps should have given details of my experimentations with > > this. > > It seems that the terminology here is confusing - the set-global- > > staff- > > size is *not* equivalent to layout-set-staff-size on each score > > block > > as the following shows: > > > > \version "2.22.0" > > %#(set-global-staff-size 44) > > \score { > > \layout { > > #(layout-set-staff-size 44) > > } > > {e f g a}} > > > > Commenting and un-commenting the set-global-staff-size shows that > > they > > are different, and indeed I'm not quite sure what the use-case is > > for > > the layout-set-staff-size, it distorts the placement of clefs/time > > signatures. > > I was hoping there might be a set of settings which could be used > > to do > > what set-global-staff-size does on each score block... > > > > Richard > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Valentin > > > > > > 09.02.2022 13:04:16 Richard Shann <rich...@rshann.plus.com>: > > > > > > > To create a single PDF of a full score and parts it is > > convenient > > > > in > > > > Denemo to simply concatenate the LilyPond; something like this: > > > > > > > > \version "2.22.0" > > > > #(set-global-staff-size 20) > > > > \markup "First" > > > > { c d e} > > > > #(set-global-staff-size 10) > > > > \markup "Second" > > > > {e f g} > > > > > > > > This runs into the problem that the full score is often needed > > at a > > > > smaller font size and in the above code the last set-global- > > staff- > > > > size > > > > is, naturally, the one used for both \score{}s. > > > > > > > > I realize it may be a long shot, and a bit esoteric, but is > > there > > > > any > > > > way something like that could be achieved? (I'm not seeking > > > > radically > > > > different approaches here as this won't be hand-written). > > > > > > > > Richard Shann > > > > > In my own experimentation, there's no convenient way to get what you > want in the same output file. The last call to set-global-staff-size > affects the current \book. You can then re-call the command if you > explicitly callout another \book after that, but that generates a > separate output file for each \book block.
yes, it's quite possible then to concatenate the PDFs with ghostscript but the pagination is wrong. I can't help thinking that there might be a set of individual sizes that set-global-staff-size is affecting which could be separately tweaked at score level. The very fact that the variable set-global- staff-size alters the size of the markup for titles etc indicates that the scope of the variable has drifted away from what was originally intended. And the fact that layout-set-staff-size fails to keep clefs and time signatures behaving properly seems strange too, perhaps there is some further variables that will make them behave... it seems this is a case for a LilyPond guru. Richard