http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1294
which reported that Lyric ties do not work in 2.13. It was added as a regression, then downgraded for reasons that aren't entirely clear to me except that the reasons for it aren't clearly understood. I think it was believed that adding "The lyric tie is implemented with the Unicode character U+203F, so be sure to have a font (like DejaVuLGC) installed that includes this glyph." to the NR was a good enough workaround.
I don't believe it is. A minor nitpick is that DejaVuLGC does not include this glyph in its seriffed versions, AFAICS - it's in DejaVu Sans - a sans serif font. Now, I've just gone and got both of those fonts and installed them. If I explicitly set the LyricText font-name to DejaVu Sans, then I get satisfactory lyric ties. If I don't, then I get short lyric ties, different from the documented output. My test file as below gives the attached image.
{
\time 3/4
\relative c' { c2 e4 g2 e4 }
\addlyrics { gran- de_a- mi- go }
\addlyrics { pu- "ro y ho-" nes- to }
\addlyrics { pu- ro~y~ho- nes- to }
\addlyrics {
\override LyricText #'font-name = #"DejaVu Sans"
pu- ro~y~ho- nes- to
}
}
Now - there's one other interesting feature here. If I delete the fourth
line of the lyrics above (the one with the explicit font) and run Lily
2.13.49, saving the PS file, it has the following in the postscript header:
%%DocumentMedia: a4 595.28 841.89 80 () () %%DocumentSuppliedResources: font CenturySchL-Roma %%DocumentSuppliedResources: font Emmentaler-20 %%DocumentSuppliedResources: font MS-Gothic %%EndComments If I run the same file in 2.12.3 I get: %%DocumentMedia: a4 595.28 841.89 80 () () %%DocumentSuppliedResources: font CenturySchL-Roma %%DocumentSuppliedResources: font DejaVuSans %%DocumentSuppliedResources: font Emmentaler-20 %%DocumentSuppliedResources: font feta-alphabet20 %%EndCommentswhich is interesting - 2.12 has found a font with the glyph in, and has automatically used it. 2.13 doesn't do this.
Sorry - but this, for me, is back to looking like a regression. -- Phil Holmes Bug Squad
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