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List:       lilypond-user
Subject:    Re: list of thicknesses affected by changing StaffSymbol.thickness
From:       Simon Albrecht <simon.albrecht () mail ! de>
Date:       2016-01-31 22:15:46
Message-ID: 56AE8792.2020008 () mail ! de
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On 31.01.2016 22:34, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Ultimately, my goal is to be able to design stylesheets that match certain "house \
> styles" (e.g., Hanle, Chappell & Co., Peters). I find that many plate-engraved \
> scores appear to have a slightly heavier overall look to the staff lines, so I \
> wanted to increase them without necessarily increasing the others proportionally.

I agree, by default the staff lines look rather light in LilyPond. 
Perhaps you can make a point if you statistically show that 
hand-engraved scores use to have thicker staff lines in relation to 
other line thicknesses, such as to convince ‘the developers' that we 
should change the default.
In the meantime, I do think that it should be easier to override staff 
line thickness in a style sheet without changing other line thicknesses. 
And it really makes sense to have a context property ‘lineThickness' as 
‘master' line thickness, instead of a grob property 
StaffSymbol.thickness. I'll submit that as an enhancement request.

Best, Simon

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