I should add that the original code was missing a right closing brace after
\staffSize #2 to close off the \with block.

James Worlton

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 9:19 AM, James Worlton <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Cynthia Karl <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The following snippet:
>>
>> \version "2.19.15"
>>
>> staffSize = #(define-music-function (parser location new-size) (number?)
>> #{
>>   \set fontSize = #new-size
>>   \override StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #(magstep new-size)
>>   \override StaffSymbol #'thickness   = #(magstep new-size)
>> #})
>>
>>     Ab = \relative c' { f4 g a b  }
>>
>>     \score {
>>         \new Staff  \with { \staffSize #2  { \Ab }
>> \layout { }
>>     }
>>
>> produces at LP v2.19.15:
>>
>>
>> but at LP v2.19.16 produces:
>>
>>
>> Besides being wrong (see, e.g., "Behind Bars" by Elaine Gould, p.13),
>> this causes many scores to require an additional page.
>>
>> Applying convert-ly to the above snippet changes only the \version number.
>>
>> I tried all values for new-size between -8 and +8; the only ones that
>> failed were -4 and 2.
>>
>> (The staffSize music-function was kindly contributed by Eluze in 2013 on
>> this list to overcome limitations of layout-set-staff-size.)
>>
>>
> I have been able to reproduce the problem on Windows 7 with Frescobaldi
> 2.17.2.
>
> Additionally I found that sizes of 2.1, 1.4, 1.1, 0.7, 0.5, -0.2, -0.3,
> -0.6, -1.3, -1.4, -2.1 also created the down stem on the F. (I only tested
> 2.1 to -2.1).
>
> James Worlton
>
>
>
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