Re: Minimal horizontal space for melismata

[Peter Crighton]

On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 at 09:34, Torsten Hämmerle <address@hidden> wrote:

For rhythmic alignment without noteheads, beams, accidentals, etc. consuming
space, the relatively new
*  NullVoice*
has been invented.  

 

This, however, still doesn't quite solve your problem yet as other elements
still take up horizontal space.

Thanks, I wasn’t aware of NullVoice. This is better than what I had before, but yes, it solves not every case.

 

I've come to a solution that works with your example, but, I'll have to
admit that if it had been "i -- met" instead of "a -- met", a tiny gap after
the slim letter "i" still couldn't have been avoided that way.

In addition, longer melismata and note lengths lead to hyphens/gaps.

Now, I strangely wasn’t able to recreate it in the MWE, but in the real-world score I’m working on including this snippet fixed it, even for the shortest possible syllable “i”: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2019-05/msg00389.html

There is a very minor drawback, in that the snippet adds a barely noticeable space after a multisyllabic word. I opened a different thread about this a few days ago, maybe a fix will be found.

 

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