Re: Incorrect letter spacing in header

[David Kastrup]

Steven Smith <address@hidden> writes:

> I am working on an arrangement for band, and would like the header
> information to be the same size on the conductor's score and the
> instrumental parts. I put the scores in different \book block so I
> could use the #(set-global-staff-size 12.5) for the conductor's score
> and #(set-global-staff-size 20) for the parts.
>
> Then I tried to use    \abs-fontsize #20  for the Title in a
> \bookTitleMarkup block. The second book has the correct font size, but
> the letter spacing is wrong. If the first book has the smaller staff
> size, the second book title spacing is too wide. If the first book has
> the larger staff size, the second book title spacing is too narrow.
>
> What is going on here? MWE code follows, images attached.

It doesn't work but bombs out because of "unexpected \book".  The reason
(after replacing unbreakable spaces by ordinary ones) is that

>         { \fromproperty #'header:title}

is missing a space after #'header:title .  Please check your examples
before posting them, even after "trivial" changes.

> \version "2.19.80"

I can reproduce your problem with Ubuntu's standard version 2.18.2
(short of the version complaint, of course) but not with my
self-compiled version close to master.  Can you check with the most
recent development version (2.19.83 I think)?

-- 
David Kastrup