Re: How to generate \scaleDurations values procedurally

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On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 at 14:51, Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> wrote:
>
> Le lundi 12 juin 2023 à 13:49 +0200, Lib Lists a écrit :
> >
> > Dear Jean, fantastic, thank you so much! And all clear.
> >
> > Concerning the staff size and page layout, I think I've found
> > something that is not clear to me from the documentation. When
> > reducing the staff size to accommodate all the staves in one page, I
> > noticed that the StaffGroup bracket doesn't become smaller, and
> > similarly, it doesn't become bigger with a staff size of let's say 30.
> > See MWE below.  I can solve the issue by defining a paper size big
> > enough, but I somehow always assumed that set-staff-size was affecting
> > all the elements in a score (even though it is about the *staff*
> > size).
> > I'm wondering if there is a command to actually resize all elements in
> > a score (with the possibility of excluding for example the header,
> > page numbers, and so on)?
> >
> > \version "2.25.5"
> >
> > \new StaffGroup  <<
> >   \new Staff {
> >     c'' c'' c'' c''
> >   }
> >   \new Staff {
> >     c'' c'' c'' c''
> >   }
> > > >
> > \layout {
> >      #(layout-set-staff-size 9)
> > }
>
>
> Well, at the current point of time, layout-set-staff-size is unfortunately
> known for being a pretty buggy command.
>
> If you don't need the ability to set the staff size per-score, use
> set-global-staff-size instead. It behaves much better.

Hi Jean and thank you once again.
I didn't know that. Changing staff size globally worked as expected
(see attached pdf).

Test_Lilypond_global_staff_sizes.pdf
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