Re: [Feature Request] Make LSR #888 the default for calculating X-offset of lyrics with punctuation

[tisimst]

Harm,

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Thomas Morley-2 [via Lilypond] <
address@hidden> wrote:

> 2016-03-23 19:56 GMT+01:00 Abraham Lee <[hidden email]
> <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=188879&i=0>>:
>
> > Dev Team,
> >
> > I really appreciate LSR #888: Center Lyric Syllables (ignoring
> > punctuation). Since most of what I engrave has lyrics, I can't think of
> any
> > reason why I wouldn't want this to be on all the time. Is it possible
> that
> > such a situation exists where I wouldn't want the punctuation to be
> > ignored? Perhaps, but I'd dare say they are much less likely.
> >
> > Not sure how much more work would be needed to incorporate it
> officially,
> > but I'm wondering if this can be considered for inclusion into the core
> > code.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > - Abraham
>
>
>
> Hi Abraham,
>
> there are at least two recent threads where
> http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=888
> and problems with it are discussed:
>
> http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/align-on-syllable-ly-and-2-19-36-td187874.html
>
> http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/LyricText-center-on-word-breaks-lyricMelismaAlignment-td183456.html
>
> Apart from the problems which happen while aligning to Voice vs
> NullVoice this snippet creates a bunch of stencils, just to compare
> their extents and then throws them away.
> I don't think we want such code in the source.
> Otoh, it may be worth to think about a better approach for that feature...
>

Thanks for bringing me up to speed with the current state of its exclusion.
I will continue to use it on its own until something breaks ;-)

Best,
Abraham




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