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Subject:    =?UTF-8?Q?Enhancement:_Take_=e2=80=98master=e2=80=99_line_thickness?= =?UTF-8?Q?_from_a_context_prop
From:       Simon Albrecht <simon.albrecht () mail ! de>
Date:       2016-01-31 22:29:36
Message-ID: 56AE8AD0.1020804 () mail ! de
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On 31.01.2016 23:15, Simon Albrecht wrote:
> 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.

<https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/4760/>

Yours, Simon

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