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Subject: [Lilypond-auto] [LilyIssues-auto] [testlilyissues:issues] Re: Ticket 4509 discussion
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 16:00:30 +0000

"Alexander Kobel" address@hidden writes:

Disclaimer: not at a Lily-equipped PC at the moment.

Isn't that talking about apples and oranges? IIUC, the tweak as
written in the snippet does not work with the patch because __ is
not translated to an ExtenderEvent anymore, but to
SCM_UNSPECIFIED. That's expected, since we purged __ from the
syntax.

Uh, no? It is still part of the syntax. That we put out a warning does
not change that. And since the processing appears to deal fine with an
extender getting in via a music _expression_, I don't really see the point
in replacing the extender with an _expression_ causing followup errors.

I'm not sure if it's a good idea to keep __ around just to
facilitate the tweak notation.

Well, it doesn't work well in-situ at the moment (the old -\tweak thing
for postevents does not work in lyrics mode "yet" for decades).

I just don't see the point in warning and doing nonsense instead of
warning and doing what was intended anyway.

That being said, I'm nevertheless surprised how \displayLilyMusic
manages to emit an __ there...

Well, my personal surprise meter was more triggered by it regurgitating
the whole lambda-function definition.

--
David Kastrup


[issues:#4509] Enhancement: automatically engrave lyric extenders

Status: Started
Created: Sat Jul 18, 2015 03:23 AM UTC by Anonymous
Last Updated: Thu Jan 26, 2017 07:38 AM UTC
Owner: Alexander Kobel
Attachments:

Originally created by: *anonymous

Originally created by: address@hidden

Actually, this is a content vs. presentation issue. The current approach has lyric extenders ‘hardcoded’ within the lyricmode input, whereas often it depends on layout whether I want an extender printed or not:
– In tight horizontal spacing, we might not need an extender, but when spacing is stretched, it might become necessary. This can come through different (page/line) breaking, parallel contexts present only in some editions (part vs. score), Completion_heads_engraver (mensural without barlines/transcription with barlines).
– Long syllables might not need an extender, where short syllables do.
– Often, all voices share the same text, but have extenders in different places. If extenders need not be given explicitly, the lyricmode input code can be reused much easier.

After all, the extenders don’t add any additional meaning, but only serve to improve legibility in such cases where they do.

This would require:
– Recognising the end of a word by absence of a hyphen.
– Comparing printed length of the melisma notes vs. the syllable, likely after line breaking. After all, extenders will never influence horizontal spacing. They might, however, affect vertical spacing. (unless we chose to omit (or shift) the extender in that case?)
– Personally, I think very short extenders shouldn’t be printed. There should be some kind of threshold.
It’s also one of the usecases where a proper representation of a ‘lyric word’ would be helpful, along with issue 2458.

Possibly related:
issue 4098

Version 2.12 had this listed as a Known issue.


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