Tina Petzel: > > One quick (?) question: Can you think of a way to make lyrics follow the > curve, > > rather than each word being on a rigid flat baseline? (With small syllables, > > itâs fine of course, but longer syllables like âroundâ highlight what > > I > mean.) > > Actually thought about that one. The problem is that Lilypond does not offer > much control over the font rendering engine behind it. Doing this essentially > requires us to manage font rendering ourselves. ... > But with postscript backend weâd need to handle all aspects of font > rendering > ourselves, including letter spacing, kerning, ligatures, ... ...
The postscript "blue book" contains an example of fircular text (p.168-171) as well of text along an arbitrary path (p.172-175). https://archive.org/details/PSBlueBook/page/167/mode/2up Regards, /Karl Hammar
