Re: Sizing Dynamics

[Mark Mathias]

Wonderful! Thank you. I had gotten closer to discovering the Hairpin.height parameter, but my level of understanding starts getting challenged when reading Internals pages and knowing what to do with them. (Non-programmer, you see.) Your tip just allowed me to understand enough to add \override Hairpin.self-alignment-Y = #-3 and place them nicely.

Thank You Again and Happy New Year,

Mark

On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 9:53 AM Michael Werner <reznaeous@gmail.com> wrote:

Oh yeah, one more thing.  When you're doing the Dynamics context you don't need to replace the notes with spacer rests. You can just do a direct copy of the music and add the dynamics to it - the notes don't get printed. So you can just do this:

    \new Dynamics \with {
      fontSize = #-5
      \override Hairpin.height = #0.4
    } { c4\p c-\markup sostenuto c c c\< c c c\! }

and get just the dynamics.

On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 9:48 AM Michael Werner <reznaeous@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Mark,

Looks like Hairpins have their own sizing properties. A full list is at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/internals/hairpin but in this case looks like height is probably the one you want used  something like this:

\version "2.24.0"
\relative c'' {
  <<
    \new Staff \with {
      \magnifyStaff #2/3
    } { c4 c c c c c c c }
    \new Dynamics \with {
      fontSize = #-5
      \override Hairpin.height = #0.4
    } { s\p s-\markup sostenuto s s s\< s s s\! }
  >>
}

The default height value is 0.6666 so 0.4 is a rough approximation of 2/3 the default. Adjust to taste.

On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 9:19 AM Mark Mathias <d8valily@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, thank you. I overlooked retrying \magnifyStaff having just updated to 2.24.0 after failing in 2.22.2. I just now tried it, but I get the same result as with fontsize, viz., the text changes size, but the hairpins do not.

On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 8:49 AM Xavier Scheuer <x.scheuer@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, 3 Jan 2023 at 14:30, Mark Mathias <d8valily@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Using dynamics separately from a staff is useful, but for some reason changing the size affects the DynamicText but not the hairpins. I'd like the hairpins to match the staff size if possible.

Hello,

If you use Lilypond version > 2.23.6 (which seems to be the case according to your version statement), you should be able to use \magnifyStaff in Dynamics context.

https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6188

Cheers,

Xavier

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Xavier Scheuer <x.scheuer@gmail.com>