Re: Feature request: some way of manually breaking slurs, ties and lyric extenders

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On 11 déc. 2012, at 18:56, Ben Rudiak-Gould <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:59 PM, address@hidden
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> The website says that the file cannot be accessed for copyright reasons. 
>> Could you post a public-domain score on a site that can be accessed by any 
>> user?
> 
> It must be restricted by country since I can view it without any
> special privileges. It's the Works of Henry Purcell vol. 22: Catches,
> Rounds, Two-part and Three-part songs, published 1922. Here's another
> example:
> 
>  http://archive.org/stream/nationalsongbook00stan#page/n255/mode/2up
> 
> "She weepeth sore" (middle right) has a tie and a lyric extender
> across parts, and a final half measure.
> 
> -- Ben

Got it.  In theory all of this is hackable via Scheme.  What you'd wanna do is 
create custom engravers for both lyric extenders and ties.  The engravers would 
attach these Spanners to the targeted note as well as the next or previous 
NonMusicalPaperColumn (and broken variants thereof).  By "attach" I mean use 
them as left and right bounds.  The rest should take care of itself - LilyPond 
already knows how to engrave most spanners between a NonMusicalPaperColumn and 
a note.

Cheers,
MS