Re: Issue 4015: Add \magnifyStaff. (issue 117830043 by address@hidden)

[Paul Morris]

markpolesky wrote
> Here's a new music function called \magnifyStaff (along the lines of
> \magnifyMusic) that scales staff sizes, staff lines, bar lines,
> beamlets, and horizontal spacing at the Staff context level.  Staff
> lines are prevented from being scaled smaller than the default (and
> consequently, so are stems, slurs, etc., since the thickness of each is
> based on staff lines).  This should improve the user experience for this
> task, which is somewhat cumbersome as it stands.

Thanks for working on this!  It will definitely be a welcome improvement, at
least for this user.  

Since "magnify" technically only refers to increasing size and not reducing
it, would it make sense to come up with a name for these two functions that
would make it clearer that they do both?  

The best ideas I've come up with would be either "resize" or "scale".  Since
scale could be confused with the musical meaning of scale, I think resize is
the better option of these two.

\resizeStaff
\resizeMusic

Thoughts on this?

-Paul





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