Re: I want to develop automatic lyric contraction

[Mats Bengtsson]

Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to dig myself into the C++ source of LilyPond.
> I have a long-wished feature, for support automatic lyric contraction.
> That means the following:
> When there is not enough space for a hyphen to appear, the hyphen is 
> removed. Like instead of "yeah - yeah - yeah", "yeah yeah yeah". In 
> these cases I would like LilyPond to automatically contract it to 
> "yeahyeah - yeah", moving the syllables, taking kerning into account.
How would this contracted syllable be aligned to the two note heads?

  /Mats