On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 11:51 AM Jean Abou Samra <j...@abou-samra.fr> wrote:
> Le mardi 23 mai 2023 à 11:41 -0600, Abraham Lee a écrit : > > @Devs (if any are reading through this), to the point of the OP's original > question, and related to what's described in Section 2 of > https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/setting-the-staff-size, > this is not entirely accurate to say you can use layout-set-staff-size for > individual scores. I mean, yes, layout-set-staff-size can be used, but the > layout engine still horizontally spaces things as if it was whatever the > global staff size is (as shown by the OP's picture). > > Yes, known bug. > > https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6054 > > For small size changes, or decreasing the size, like changing it to 18 vs > a global 20, then it's not so noticeable, but a big change, or going up in > size, like changing it to 26 with a global 20, then the spacing issue > becomes considerably more apparent. I am not a Dev and I have no idea > what's required to fix this behavior, but not being able to cleanly adjust > the staff size of individual book parts or scores within the same \book is > a long-standing complaint I've had. I've worked around it by creating > separate \book blocks and then spliced them together later, but it's a > hassle. Why not just have it do the right/expected thing from the beginning? > > It's complicated. Basically, set-global-staff-size is able to just scale > almost everything globally, but layout-set-staff-size needs each grob / > spacing function / markup command / etc. etc. to handle the staff size > correctly (because not all scores/staves are scaled the same). > Unfortunately, there are lots of bugs in this area. It could be a very nice > project to do some sort of exhaustive walk-through to fix such issues. > Thanks for responding, Jean. All the work you and the other devs do is very much appreciated!
