Werner wrote: > \set fontSize doesn't effect beams and stems It's not supposed to -- beams and stems are not part of any font, they are drawn according to calculations that happen when the program is processing your file. So changing the fontSize doesn't do anything to them. On the other hand, noteheads, flags, and (some) markups are made out of font-glyphs; these are affected by fontSize.
In NR 1.7.1 Selecting notation font size, we find this paragraph: The font size of notation elements may be altered. It does not change the size of variable symbols, such as beams or slurs. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Inside-the-staff#Selecting-notation-font-size > Seems to be a bug (different behavior for hooks and beams!). It's not a bug unless it results in a crash or erroneous output. Erroneous output can include output that contradicts what would be expected after having read the documentation. What this means is that sometimes things don't do what you want them to do, but then you read the docs and you find out that they weren't designed to do what you want. Other times (as odd as this may seem), the actual bug is in the *documentation*, so bugs are often "fixed" by re-wording the incorrect description in the docs. Occasionally you may feel that something *ought* to behave a certain way, even if the docs say that it's not designed to do that. Usually, though, there's another, more appropriate way of doing it, and if you don't like that, you can submit a feature request, or ask on the mailing list for help writing a scheme hack. But in this case, you can either do something like this: \override Beam #'thickness = #(* 0.48 (magstep -4)) \override Stem #'thickness = #(* 1.3 (magstep -4)) Or, you can look into the \cueDuring command, which looks like what you really mean to be doing. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Writing-parts#Formatting-cue-notes Hope this helps. - Mark _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
