Re: Selecting Staff Size by the Font Size of the Lyrics

[Mark Polesky]

Br. Samuel Springuel wrote:
> Is there a way to tell lilypond to select the staff size
> so that the accompanying lyrics are printed at 17pt?  Or
> do I simply have to play around with the staffsize
> settings until I find one that gets the lyrics to
> approximately the right size?

The default point size for lyrics is 12pt.  The default
global staff size is 20pt.  So adding this at the top of
your file should do what you want:

#(set-global-staff-size (* 20 17/12))

- Mark