Hi Kieren, On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 3:21 PM, Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hi David (et al.), > > These are questions regarding the "lyric-word-reconstituter" in the thread > which includes the post > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2014-03/msg00489.html>. > > I'd love to use it (or something like it) in my engravings going forward. > > 1. It doesn't seem to work with 2.19.61 (at least), and convert-ly doesn't > seem to help. The error is > > warning: type check for `LyricWord' failed; value `#<Grob_properties>' > must be of type `list' > > My instinct (and a quick search on -user) led me to believe that changing > > (set-object-property! grob-name 'translation-type? list?) > > to > > (set-object-property! grob-name 'translation-type? ly:grob-properties?) > > might fix the problem. The file/example now compiles without error. Did I fix > it correctly?
Yes, that's right. > > 2. This is a workaround/hack/fix from 2014. At the time, there was some > question as to whether Janek might roll this (or similar) into the GSoC Lyric > project… but that is, I believe, dead in the water. Is there any hope of > getting this into the codebase? I'm happy to take this "stub" (much more than > a stub, of course!) and shepherd it through the dev process to the goal line > — but I don't want to start down a track that will ultimately lead to > frustration or nowhere at all. > > It's not suitable as is, but easily remedied. The grob LyricWord is defined in a hackish way so that it can fit in an LY file. In my opinion, it's potentially useful to have a grob which organizes whole Lyric words, so lyrics are not simply a collection of isolated syllables. (Makes short work of the compression in this instance.) I can't say what problems there are with the compression routine. I know there have been complaints, but I haven't looked into them. (See openlilylib, I believe.) DN _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
