Re: Overriding a global declaration

[John McWilliam]

Windows 10, Lilypond 2.18.2, Friscobaldi 3.0.1

Unfortunately, nobody seems able to help me with this one. 

I have a collection of tunes in a \book structure with a global-staff-size
of 18. One of the tunes, however, spills over onto the next page and I want
to reduce it's size to fit into the page without changing the format of the
other tunes. I have tested what would work and found that 14 is feasible. I
have searched the forum and tried introducing a \layout section within the
tune score:

\layout {
        \context {\Staff \with {
        fontSize = #-2
        \override StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #(magstep -2)}
}}

This reduced the size of the staff + notes spacing the lines vertically and
not giving the extra space to the overflow (1 line). I then added to the top
level of my file, \paper section:

\paper {
    ragged-bottom = ##t
    bottom-margin = 0\mm
    between-system-padding = #0.1
    between-system-space = #0.1
}

.....but this did not change anything. \magnifyStaff seemed an interesting
option, however, my version of Lilypond returned an error on compilation so
perhaps this only works in later versions.

I'd be most grateful of assistance in solving this impass.

John McWilliam






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