Different font size settings for instrumentName and shortInstrumentName
Choose different font sizes for instrumentName and
shortInstrumentName as a context override.
InstrumentNameFontSize = #(define-music-function (font-size-pair) (pair?) "Set the font size of `InstrumentName` grobs. The first value of FONT-SIZE-PAIR sets the font size of the initial `instrumentName` property, the second value sets the font size of `shortInstrumentName`." ;; This code could be changed or extended to set different values ;; for each occurrence of `shortInstrumentName'. #{ \override InstrumentName.after-line-breaking = #(lambda (grob) (let* ((orig (ly:grob-original grob)) (siblings (if (ly:grob? orig) (ly:spanner-broken-into orig) '()))) (when (pair? siblings) (ly:grob-set-property! (car siblings) 'font-size (car font-size-pair)) (for-each (lambda (g) (ly:grob-set-property! g 'font-size (cdr font-size-pair))) (cdr siblings))))) #}) \layout { indent = 3\cm short-indent = 0.8\cm \context { \Staff \InstrumentNameFontSize #'(6 . -3) } } \new StaffGroup << \new Staff \with { instrumentName = "Flute" shortInstrumentName = "Fl." } { c''1 \break c'' \break c'' } \new Staff \with { instrumentName = "Violin" shortInstrumentName = "Vl." } { c''1 \break c'' \break c'' } >>