Hi Lukas, > This is fascinating: With $, the situation seems reversed. Now I get the > (naively) expected behaviour if I add the top-level score as a \book, > but the sizes are messed up if I only add it as a \bookpart.
indeed, that is interesting ... I suppose what is happening now is that the
book might not yet have been created when the first line is parsed. This can be
fixed by adding something before the `$(set-global-staff-size size)` to ensure
that the context exists, e.g. simply switch order to
\test
$(set-global-staff-size size)
or add a `\paper { }` or even just a `#'()` at the beginning of the book.
> The whole staff-size-setting-business seems full of surprised. For
> instance, I don't really understand why the setting of the global staff
> size happens at top level rather than inside a \paper block ...
`set-global-staff-size` is simply a wrapper around `layout-set-staff-size` (or
rather its implementation `layout-set-absolute-staff-size-in-module`) that
calls
it on the current default paper.
So it just some convenience around `\paper { #(layout-set-staff-size ...) }`.
Note (since you stated this in your first email) that spacing issues only
happen when you use `layout-set-staff-size` in a layout-block, since this does
set things specific to a score. Using it in a \paper-block should give the same
result as `(set-global-staff-size size)` (check out definition at line 100 in
`scm/paper.scm`).
Best regards,
Tina
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