Hi Simon,
On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de>
wrote:
> Hello David, hello list,
>
> upon proofreading my latest larger lily project I had an idea for
> enhancement of your lyricWordEngraver: it would be very useful to have a
> \compressWord command, which is entered before a lyric syllable and then
> makes the following word be engraved as single string without hyphens.
> Well, I don’t quite have the technical knowledge to judge whether this is
> difficult or makes sense, and I hope that you also see a point in that I
> give ideas that I have and others add their technical knowledge. However, I
> might imagine that this would involve: – creating a word-compress-event,
> which is entered by \compressWord, – having the lyricWordEngraver collect
> these events and – using them to assist its decision on whether to compress
> or not (an opposite \noCompress or whatever would be conceivable also).
> Sometimes it would be useful if the resulting command worked inside words
> too to just apply to the remaining syllables of the word (or even only
> those enclosed in {}? just brainstorming).
> I know that this is not a „sustainable” solution due to the shortcomings
> of the original approach (mainly because the note spacing remains just the
> same) but nevertheless, if I am right with my conjecture that this is not
> really involving, I think it would be worth it. Feel free to say that you
> don’t have time or a good mind now :-)
>
>
I'd have to look at this more, but I have some initial thoughts. It would
be fairly easy to force a compression or a non-compression at the level of
a complete LyricWord through an override of a property attached to
LyricWord like "force-compression". However, treatment of partial words
would need to rely on a property attached to LyricSyllable instead of
LyricWord.
--David
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