Enhancement: Take ‘master’ line thickness from a context property [was: Re: list of thicknesses…]

[Simon Albrecht]

On 31.01.2016 23:15, Simon Albrecht wrote:
> On 31.01.2016 22:34, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> > Ultimately, my goal is to be able to design stylesheets that match 
> > certain “house styles” (e.g., Hanle, Chappell & Co., Peters). I find 
> > that many plate-engraved scores appear to have a slightly heavier 
> > overall look to the staff lines, so I wanted to increase them without 
> > necessarily increasing the others proportionally.
>
> I agree, by default the staff lines look rather light in LilyPond. 
> Perhaps you can make a point if you statistically show that 
> hand-engraved scores use to have thicker staff lines in relation to 
> other line thicknesses, such as to convince ‘the developers’ that we 
> should change the default.
> In the meantime, I do think that it should be easier to override staff 
> line thickness in a style sheet without changing other line 
> thicknesses. And it really makes sense to have a context property 
> ‘lineThickness’ as ‘master’ line thickness, instead of a grob property 
> StaffSymbol.thickness. I’ll submit that as an enhancement request.

<https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/4760/>

Yours, Simon