Hi Mac,
Thank you so much for your advice. After some more frustration I eventually did get there and have been able to printout something that looks quite good and easy to read.

The breakthrough was :
the font size and nos of staves settings in the "Lead Sheet Options" affect only the onscreen display of the lead sheet window.

The font size and nos of staves settings in the "Print Options" affect only the printout. And neither interacts with the other.

The settings in the "Notation Options" affect both.

After all this time as is so often the case it was one little setting that I needed to find in this case the "font size (def.) = "

Clearly these dialogue boxes need to be overhauled from the point of view of ease of use, but the end result is quite good.

Thanks for your help again.
Steve

Last edited by stevehumus; 01/11/13 10:30 PM.