Re: Lyrics.LyricText.font-size in layout block

2016-07-20 Thread Colin Tennyson
Hello tisimst, hello Noeck, thank you for your replies. You have explained to me why a very small number, -0.2, has such a noticable effect. I infer that Lilypond _replaces_ the step value for the LyricText font-size with the entered step number (rather than performing an addition.) So when I en

Re: Lyrics.LyricText.font-size in layout block

2016-07-20 Thread tisimst
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 12:34 AM, Noeck [via Lilypond] < ml-node+s1069038n192857...@n5.nabble.com> wrote: > Hi Abraham, > > Am 20.07.2016 um 01:05 schrieb tisimst: > > Shouldn't it be without the -1 though? > > In general, yes. The default is 1.0, so I wrote it for this case of > lycris. If you en

Re: Lyrics.LyricText.font-size in layout block

2016-07-19 Thread Noeck
Hi Abraham, Am 20.07.2016 um 01:05 schrieb tisimst: > Shouldn't it be without the -1 though? In general, yes. The default is 1.0, so I wrote it for this case of lycris. If you enter font-size=1.0 in this formula, you get a factor of 1.0 (with respect to the default lyrics font size). With the gen

Re: Lyrics.LyricText.font-size in layout block

2016-07-19 Thread tisimst
On Tuesday, July 19, 2016, Noeck [via Lilypond] < ml-node+s1069038n192849...@n5.nabble.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Am 19.07.2016 um 22:54 schrieb tisimst: > > real-lyric-font-size = x*(1+y/6)*(12/20) > > I doubt this formula as y = -6 should give half of the normal size and > not a negative number. I st

Re: Lyrics.LyricText.font-size in layout block

2016-07-19 Thread Noeck
Hi, Am 19.07.2016 um 22:54 schrieb tisimst: > real-lyric-font-size = x*(1+y/6)*(12/20) I doubt this formula as y = -6 should give half of the normal size and not a negative number. I still think this is correct: factor = 2^((font-size-1)/6) Cheers, Joram ___

Re: Lyrics.LyricText.font-size in layout block

2016-07-19 Thread Noeck
Hi Colin, > My question is: > Is there documentation of what number I should give to get a particular > decrease or increase in font size? > > There is this page: > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/internals/lyrictext > > From the above page: > The font size, compared to the ‘normal’

Re: Lyrics.LyricText.font-size in layout block

2016-07-19 Thread David Kastrup
Colin Tennyson writes: > From the above page: > The font size, compared to the ‘normal’ size. 0 is style-sheet’s normal > size, -1 is smaller, +1 is bigger. Each step of 1 is approximately 12% > larger; 6 steps are exactly a factor 2 larger. Fractional values are > allowed. > > > But that is not

Re: Lyrics.LyricText.font-size in layout block

2016-07-19 Thread tisimst
Colin, On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 1:55 PM, Colin Tennyson [via Lilypond] < ml-node+s1069038n192840...@n5.nabble.com> wrote: > I was looking for a way to change the font size of the lyrics in choir > music > > Looking around I came across a page describing a command 'fontsize' for > use in markup sec

Lyrics.LyricText.font-size in layout block

2016-07-19 Thread Colin Tennyson
I was looking for a way to change the font size of the lyrics in choir music Looking around I came across a page describing a command 'fontsize' for use in markup sections http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/font On this page it is described that many font properties can be acces