Re: Experiences with smaller staff sizes?

[Janek Warchoł]

2013/12/3 Urs Liska <address@hidden>:
> Am 03.12.2013 00:22, schrieb Keith OHara:
>> I know that you know that LilyPond does not simply scale down the lines
>> and fonts, but uses relatively heavier weights at the smaller staff-sizes.
>> It sounds like you feel the effect should be stronger.
>
> Basically yes.
>
> And I'm noticing that I can't adjust everything to the same amount.
> Say I make everything heavier, either because the "opticals" effect should
> be stronger or because I just _want_ that score to be heavy. Then some
> items, particularly articulations and a few other things like the mentioned
> arpeggio bracket will be out of balance because I can't simply override
> their #'line-thickness.

Yup.  What we need is to be able to choose font weight independently
from size - so that i could say "use the glyphs from feta13 (heavy
appearance) but scale them to fit 17 pt staff size".

As i'm right now doing a quite thorough cleanup of the metafont code
(i'm working on making accidenals fit better with text, and it seems
that the mf code is so horrible that it's hard to work with it), maybe
i'll be able to implement this sooner than later.

best,
Janek