Re: How to set the font size for the repeat symbol.

[Flaming Hakama by Elaine]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 10:24 AM, <address@hidden> wrote:

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From: john ware <address@hidden>
To: lilypond-user <address@hidden>
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Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 11:13:50 -0700
Subject: How to set the font size for the repeat symbol.

Hi, I am using lilypond to generate scores(with chord names) and chord charts all from the same source. And what a wonderful tool you have created.

The chord chart is simply the score with only the chord names and bar lines visible. And the chord names are shifted down between the bar lines. 

I am able to set the size of the BarLine's with bar-extent and the size of the ChordName's with font-size. 

My issue is, when I do this the colon for the repeat symbol does not resize. So, I get big bar lines and a tiny colon for the repeat.

Here's my tiny example:

\version "2.14.2"

\score {

     \new ChordNames \with {

     \override BarLine #'bar-extent = #'(-1 . 20)

     \override ChordName #'font-size = #20

     \override ChordName #'extra-offset = #'(0 . -1)

     \consists "Bar_engraver"

     }

     {

       \relative a' {

         \chordmode {

           \partial 4  s4

           \repeat volta 2 { a1 g c a  }

         }}}}

And, if you are interested, the results of this project can be viewed at:

http://boulderhomegrown.com/fiddletunes

There are scores, chord charts and lilypond synthesized audio tracks at different tempos for each tune.

The issue described above can be seen at the site given.

thank you for your time,

john ware

I suppose this problem arises since the repeat sign is moreso part of the staff than a text colon.

you could scale the entire staff to the desired size and avoid fiddling with the font.

I also removed two levels of nesting unnecessary for this demo, the  { \relative a' { } }

Nice work on your site.  Any chance of seeing Dusty Miller up there?

\version "2.14.2"

#(set-global-staff-size 60)

\score {
    \new ChordNames \with {
        \override BarLine #'bar-extent = #'(-1 . 1)
        \override ChordName #'extra-offset = #'(0 . -1)
        \consists "Bar_engraver"
    }
    \chordmode {
        \partial 4  s4
        \repeat volta 2 { a1 g c a  }
    }
}

HTH

David Elaine Alt

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