Re: lyrics font size

[vwf]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 08:22:28PM +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> Quoting vwf <address@hidden>:
> 
> >On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:32:07AM -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> >>Hello!
> >>
> >>>How can I set the size of the staves and the lyrics independently?

> >>    \override Score.LyricText #'font-size = #0.8

> >Unfortunately, this does not work with the pango-fonts, only with
> >the default CM fonts.
> 
> No! The default fonts are not CM but Century Schoolbook and it 
> certainly should work with any pango-fonts. 

Oh, didn't notice. I'm using two likypond versions: an old one for old
source I have, and the latest stable for music with lyrics.

> I also noted that you had played around with several numbers. The idea
> is that the value of myStaffSize should correspond to the staff size
> used for the music, for example
> #(set-global-staff-size 15)
> \paper{
>  myStaffSize = #15
>  ...
> }
> and you shouldn't touch the last argument of make-pango-font-tree, 
> where (/ myStaffSize 20) simply is Scheme syntax to calculate
> the value of myStaffSize divided by 20, which normally will lead
> to a good match between the music and the text fonts. Of course, if you 
> find that the result is consistently too small or large for
> a particular font, then you can change one of these values, but it
> doesn't make sense to change both (I would change myStaffSize and
> keep the division by 20).

I think I start to understand the system. If I make all three the same,
I do not like the result. By playing with the number I got a nice layout.

Thanks