Re: How to enlarge the entire Lilypond output (pdf)

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi Knute;

  Thank you. It may seem obvious but I wasn't sure if that would also change the notes and other aspects as well.

  I will experiment with this and see if she likes the new output better.

Thanks,

Ken

On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 5:03 PM Knute Snortum <ksnortum@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 4:50 PM Kenneth Wolcott
<kennethwolcott@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi;
>
>   Perhaps I'm not searching the Lilypond documentation wisely, but I do not see a way to enlarge the entire Lilypond output in scale (staff, notes, text, everything).
>
>   Perhaps I have to modify the pdf itself?  If so, does that decrease the clarity/precision of the presentation?
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>   I'd like to control this globally, and, preferably, externally.
>
>   My wife is trying to use the Lilypond pdf that I generate on her iPad and sometimes she tries to resize (enlarge) it and that fails.
>
> Thanks,
> Ken

I think you can do this by manipulating the staff size:

https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/notation/setting-the-staff-size