Re: Reducing fingering font size

[Trevor Daniels]

Nick

The default font-size for Fingering is -5 (see the IR), so 0
will be almost twice as large, as you have found.  To reduce
it, try -7 or -8.  (You'd hardly notice the difference at -6.)

Trevor

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Payne" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 10:54 AM
Subject: Reducing fingering font size


> I have been trying to slightly reduce the font size for guitar fingering, 
> as
> the default size of number touch when adjacent notes in a chord have
> fingering, as in the attached file.
>
> However, I can't get the numbers any smaller than the default. If I use
>
> \override Fingering #'font-size = #0
>
> Then the numbers are twice as large as the default, and
>
> \override Fingering #'font-size = #-6
>
> gives exactly the same size as no size override, whereas my reading of the
> documentation (sect 1.7.1 in lilypond.pdf) is that using #0 should give 
> the
> default size and #-6 should give half that size.
>
> Ly file is attached. I'm using 2.11.63 on Vista. When I uncomment the
> \override commands in the three voices, the size of the numbers doubles.
>
> Nick Payne


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