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Re: Flexible lyric alignment
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Kieren MacMillan |
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Re: Flexible lyric alignment |
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Wed, 9 Nov 2022 13:51:06 -0500 |
Hi Abraham,
(Great to see you on-list again!)
> It's been some time since I've posted anything here, but a recent project has
> caused me to jump back into creating scores. I'm working on a relatively
> simple choral piece with piano accompaniment and seeing all the ways the
> lyric syllables mess up the horizontal spacing is... tolerable, but somewhat
> irritating.
Do not get me started… This is something I started working with Janek on over a
decade ago, and — as someone who deals almost exclusively with sung text (art
song, choral music, musicals, operas, pop songs, etc.), this is The Thorn™.
> I'm not asking for perfect note spacing preservation, just less bad. Longer
> syllables/words are, of course, more problematic (like in the attached
> picture).
>
> In my head, I envision a springs-and-rods type of function for the lyric's
> attachment (self-alignment-X?) that increases in "stretchability" as the
> syllable length gets larger so that it is more likely to move than others.
> Thus, enabling the notes to be more correctly spaced.
>
> Thoughts? I'm afraid my own Scheme skills aren't up to the task for this. I'm
> also fully aware that I can adjust this manually at the problematic places.
> I'd like to avoid that if possible, but will do that if needed.
Please let's talk with some Great Developers, figure out a good implementation,
and get the ball [re]rolling! I'm sure some of Janek's work is applicable (at
least conceptually, if not actualy code).
Best,
Kieren.