Re: Selecting Staff Size by the Font Size of the Lyrics

2014-07-24 Thread Br. Samuel Springuel
On 2014-07-24 2:06 PM, Mark Polesky wrote: The default point size for lyrics is 12pt. The default global staff size is 20pt. So adding this at the top of your file should do what you want: #(set-global-staff-size (* 20 17/12)) That works perfectly. Even better it works through the lilypond-

Re: Selecting Staff Size by the Font Size of the Lyrics

2014-07-24 Thread Mark Polesky
Br. Samuel Springuel wrote: > Is there a way to tell lilypond to select the staff size > so that the accompanying lyrics are printed at 17pt? Or > do I simply have to play around with the staffsize > settings until I find one that gets the lyrics to > approximately the right size? The default poi

Selecting Staff Size by the Font Size of the Lyrics

2014-07-24 Thread Br. Samuel Springuel
I like the ratio of staff size to the size of the lyrics that lilypond normally uses. However, I have to print out some large format scores for a confrere who has vision problems and thus need to increase the size of the lyrics so that he can read them comfortably. I know from past experience