Re: Different sized fermatas

[Alexander Kobel]

On 2012-07-27 13:31, Nick Payne wrote:
> If I use \mark\markup { \musicglyph #"scripts.ufermata" } to get a
> fermata over the final barline, that fermata is larger than is
> obtained by using \fermata. Looks rather odd when I have a normal
> fermata a few bars before the final one.
>
> Strangely, if I use \mark\markup\normalsize rather than just
> \mark\markup, then the two fermatas *are* the same size:

Hm, in fact that's no surprise once you looked at the Internals
Reference: RehearsalMarks have font-size +2 by default, so roughly 26%
larger, see
<http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/internals/rehearsalmark>...
That's why \normalsize helps.
I agree that it's odd at the first glance, but it's a tolerated side
effect of the deliberate decision that RehearsalMarks are printed larger
than most other stuff. I used to find it mildly annoying that LyricText
has a default font-size of +1, by the way...


Best,
Alexander