Re: layout-set-staff-size: will it ever be fixed?

Nikolai,

I don't believe that there isn't a solution already for your needs (it appears that Kieren already has some ideas, I think I have an idea or two for you, and I think there are other users that have their own ideas about how you can accomplish this), but it would be tremendously helpful if you could show some code (either inline or in an attached file) for what you described above so we can understand better what you are trying to achieve. I think many regular followers of this list really want to help you out, but some specific code would make it a lot easier for us to do so. Otherwise, we can only speculate what you have and haven't tried.

Hope to hear from you soon!

Regards,

Abraham

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Simon Albrecht-2 [via Lilypond] <[hidden email]> wrote:

Am 23.03.2015 um 21:53 schrieb Nikolai Hedler:

I see that this may have been worked on in 2.19 as Issue 216; can someone update me as to the current status?

On 23 March 2015 at 16:47, Nikolai Hedler <[hidden email]> wrote:

On 23 March 2015 at 16:40, Kieren MacMillan <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Nikolai,

> Is there any reason not to fix a known bug that's been around for this long that's been a pain in the neck since I started using LilyPond?

If you don’t see any reason, then please send in a patch for review.

How would I do this? I assume that by this you mean that I should fix it myself, which I would if I knew anything about how LilyPond is coded, but I'm a full-time student, and as such can't really afford to take the time to teach myself all about it. The main purpose of this is to inquire as to any reason why it hasn't been addressed already.

For the same reason: everybody who works on lilypond does so in their free time (except for David Kastrup, who also does very good to concentrate on the things he can do best and which are most important). So it’s not a matter of “does this bug need to be fixed?” but of “do I have time, skills, nothing more important to do _and_ a good mind to fix this bug?”.
So moderate your tone.

> My goal is to be able to create a single file

Well, there’s another obvious workaround: use multiple files and \include. It’s not a crucial point that you have to compile one more .ly file.

which outputs a book including a score and all parts, where the score is staff-size 15 and the parts are 18 or 20

I do that exact thing all the time.
While more syntactic sugar would certainly make it even easier, I've never found it to be a particular pain in the neck.

Would you like to enlighten me, then? Or do you mean to recommend that I just use the hackish workaround?

Or \magnifyStaff…
The multitude of easily available solutions is one reason why this issue has been closed.

Yours, Simon

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From:	tisimst
Subject:	Re: layout-set-staff-size: will it ever be fixed?
Date:	Mon, 23 Mar 2015 14:48:35 -0700 (MST)