Re: Custom font commands (for header fields)

[Mats Bengtsson]

Please use the default definitions as a starting point, see the file
.../ly/titling-init.ly in your installation directory.

   /Mats

Risto Vääräniemi wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I've been trying to create a command that I could use in the header
> fields to change font size and such. I'm doing this is because I'm
> writing a song book and I'd like to tweak the font size of the songs
> with just one command that's specified in an external (.ily) file.
>
> Is there a way to do this? I've also tried scheme but it was no use
> (probably because I didn't do it right :-)). You can find my futile
> attempts below.
>
> -Risto
>
> %%% Start %%%
> \version "2.11.32"
>
> titleText = #(define-music-function (parser location markp) (string?)
> #{
>     \markup \bigger \bigger \normal-text { $markp }
> #})
>
> %titleSize = \fontsize #2.0
> %titleSize = \bigger \bigger
>
> \header
> {
>     %title = \titleText #"Foo"
>     %title = \markup \normal-text \titleSize { "Foo" }
>     title = \markup \normal-text \fontsize #2.0 { "Foo" }
> }
>
> {c'1}
> %%%% END %%%%
>
>
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