Re: Issue 2272 in lilypond: Long monosyllabic words collide with barlines

[lilypond]

Comment #16 on issue 2272 by address@hidden: Long monosyllabic words  
collide with barlines
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2272

It'd be great if there were a sort of collision-assertion feature.  That  
is, for any two grobs, be able to:

a)  Connect them somehow; and
b)  Assert that their extents (X or Y or both) do not overlap.

This can be hacked in Scheme by setting the grobs' IDs to 'foo and 'bar and  
overriding something like color (or something that is triggered way  
downstream) to go up to the system, get the elements list, find grobs with  
ids foo and bar, and check to see that they don't overlap.

This should be a separate project, though.

Cheers,
MS