I recognize the issue. My working method: 1. In lilypond I go for the best options, like staffsize, number of systems per page, number of pages, etcetera. 2. On the iPad I have Forscore for practicing music. To get the best view on about 2-3 feet distance, I use the crop function to minimize the white around the music. 3. If needed I export this pdf for printing on paper A4 or A3 sized.
Best results in not too much time. Met vriendelijke groet, Eef H.E. Weenink MBA > Op 16 sep. 2022 om 02:59 heeft David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> het > volgende geschreven: > > On Thu 15 Sep 2022 at 16:50:30 (-0700), Kenneth Wolcott wrote: >> >> Perhaps I'm not searching the Lilypond documentation wisely, but I do not >> see a way to enlarge the entire Lilypond output in scale (staff, notes, >> text, everything). > > Everything? including the paper? > >> Perhaps I have to modify the pdf itself? If so, does that decrease the >> clarity/precision of the presentation? > > Yes, if you want to make the music larger on each page, with > fewer measures/line and lines/page, and using more pages. > > #(set-global-staff-size 20.0) is the default. Increase or > decrease accordingly. > >> I'd like to control this globally, and, preferably, externally. > > Oh, scratch the previous paragraph. Just find a viewer that's > able to increase and decrease the magnification. (Don't they all?) > >> My wife is trying to use the Lilypond pdf that I generate on her iPad and >> sometimes she tries to resize (enlarge) it and that fails. > > That suggests that it's not obvious how you should be controlling > your viewer. Tyically, you'd put your fingers on the screen and > slide them apart to expand the display, or you'd select > magnification factors from a menu (or, as I do, have predefined > keystrokes, 0–9, z, h, w, that set preferred magnifications, > 100–2000%, fit to page, height, or width). > > So it depends on which you and your wife want. > > Cheers, > David. >
