On Mar 16, 2019, at 6:30 AM, Aaron Hill <lilyp...@hillvisions.com> wrote:
> This whole thing started as a way to automate setting the properties of > LyricHyphen based on the current LyricText font. In my use case, I am > preparing music for projection, which requires larger font sizes than typical > for print. The default values for things like length, thickness, and height > are not suitable and require manual tweaking. > > What I wanted is a way to measure the size of an actual hyphen in a font and > have LyricHyphen's default stencil procedure draw a box accordingly. > However, when using ly:stencil-extent against a simple glyph, the results did > not reflect only the ink but also included spacing/kerning information for > the glyph. Depending on the font, the effective width of a hyphen might be > larger than it actually appears. The resulting LyricHyphen does not line up > with nor properly mimic a real hyphen. > > Now, even if I could solve the detail with glyph outlines and get the right > dimensions, there is still a problem that Lyric_hyphen::print uses a rounded > box with a hard-coded corner radius for its stencil. In my case, the radius > was too small compared to the actual hyphen in the font I was using, so it > looks too "sharp". > > So, what I ended up doing was rewriting the LyricHyphen stencil procedure to > use an actual hyphen glyph rather than try to draw something. And in the > noble pursuit of generalization, the following approach supports *any* > arbitrary markup. I’ve been wanting this for quite a while. Thanks for sharing!! David _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
