Hi there,

There's something I don't entirely understand about \magnifyStaff - I'm
using it to scale down my entire score, without having to use
layout-set-staff-size
(since I don't want to switch to a different feta font size, but just scale
the feta20 one slightly.)

However, I discovered that something funny happens when you use \teeny or
\normalsize or any of the other commands that set fontSize.

Here's an example:
http://lilybin.com/nqeqsu/1

Basically, when using \teeny, it sets the note heads to a smaller than
normal size, but it doesn't take \magnifyStaff into account. So the notes
are scaled according to a base of 100 rather than whatever the staff
magnification is. Similarly, setting \normalsize resets the note heads to
100% of an unmagnified staff.

My expectation is that \magnifyStaff magnifies everything. So if \teeny
sets the size to, say, 70%, and \magnifyStaff is set to #50/100, I expect
the size to be 35%. And if \normalsize sets the size to 100%, in
\magnifyStaff #50/100 I expect the result to be 50%. Et cetera.

The \normalsize/etc commands permanently change the note head size (and
markup size) for a voice, leaving everything else the same. Probably, they
are internally setting the fontSize to a static value rather than taking
the magnification into account.

Either this is a bug or I'm not using it correctly. But it seems like if
you have a magnified staff, one should still be able to use the fontSize
commands.
Would love to hear people's thoughts, I'm going to see if I can find a
workaround - probably I can just set the fontSize myself based on my
magnify value.

Regards,
Michiel


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