I forward this email to the bug mailing list, since I think it's time to
take another look at issue 216, which was closed a couple of years back
since the bug was documented as a known limitation. There are comments
in Documentation/notation/spacing.itely about the problem. The smallest
thing we could do would be to show a workaround like the one I included
below (or at least point to a more complete example like the second
Ossia example in section 1.6.2 "Modifying single staves"). However, the
limitation that also the vertical spacing gets wrong should also be
documented, unless we can fix the underlying problems with
layout-set-staff-size. The question has appeared a sufficient number of
times on the mailing lists so make it worth a serious bug report, at
least. If we don't expect layout-set-staff-size to work properly in the
forseeable future, why not simply remove it altogether since it's not
better than setting fontSize?
If I understand you correctly, you have multiple \score blocks in the
same file and want to use different staff sizes for the different
scores. The best option that I know of is to use what you already have
tried. If you want to get the correct staff spacing when using
layout-set-staff-size, you could use
\score{
\relative c'{c4 d e f g f e d c1 }
\layout{
#(layout-set-staff-size 15)
\context{
\Staff
\override StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #(/ 15 20)
}
}
}
but it still gives too wide vertical spacing.
/Mats
Todd O'Bryan wrote:
I'm going to export the two music snippets to EPS and paste them into
OpenOffice. When I finish, I'll post the PDF so you can see what I was
going for and see if there's any way to achieve it inside Lilypond.
Sorry about not trying harder before going to EPS, but we're singing
this on Christmas Eve, so I think the choir director would like it
soon. :-)
Todd
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 1:50 AM, Marc Hohl <m...@hohlart.de> wrote:
Todd O'Bryan schrieb:
I just started using Lilypond and am loving it. But I have a rare use
case and am having trouble.
I'm trying to set Anglican chant--basically there are several bars of
whole and half notes on a grand staff that get matched up with text
below. That part is easy, I'll just use a markup section to handle the
text.
But there's a refrain at the top and because of the lyrics, it needs
to be fairly large. I'd like the chanting notes smaller, since they
don't have lyrics and could probably fit on a single line, but I can't
figure out how to make the second score a different size from the
first.
I am not sure what you want to achieve - do you have a visual example
(some scans perhaps)?
Marc
I've tried the layout-set-staff-size trick, but the lines don't get
any smaller. I've used \with to make the fontSize and staff-space
smaller, but even when I get the notes and staves so that they're
reduced in size, the spacing hasn't changed at all and I still have
the same number of measures across as I did at full size. (They just
look a lot more airy.)
Is there any way to do this, or should I just typeset the two scores
separately, convert them to EPS, and then paste them into a LaTeX
document or something similar?
Thanks for a great program,
Todd O'Bryan
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