Re: How to enlarge the entire Lilypond output (pdf)

[Knute Snortum]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 4:50 PM Kenneth Wolcott
<kennethwolcott@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi;
>
>   Perhaps I'm not searching the Lilypond documentation wisely, but I do not 
> see a way to enlarge the entire Lilypond output in scale (staff, notes, text, 
> everything).
>
>   Perhaps I have to modify the pdf itself?  If so, does that decrease the 
> clarity/precision of the presentation?
>
>   I'd like to control this globally, and, preferably, externally.
>
>   My wife is trying to use the Lilypond pdf that I generate on her iPad and 
> sometimes she tries to resize (enlarge) it and that fails.
>
> Thanks,
> Ken

I think you can do this by manipulating the staff size:

https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/notation/setting-the-staff-size