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[Lilypond-auto] Issue 2455 in lilypond: Lyrics should be compressed when
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[Lilypond-auto] Issue 2455 in lilypond: Lyrics should be compressed when there's not enough horizontal space |
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Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:37:20 +0000 |
Status: Accepted
Owner: address@hidden
Labels: Type-Enhancement GSoC-LyricProject
New issue 2455 by address@hidden: Lyrics should be compressed when
there's not enough horizontal space
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2455
Sometimes long lyric syllabes are attached to short notes - this makes
proper spacing difficult. I suggest to reduce widths of such syllabes
using two techniques:
- use tracking, reduce distance between letters
- use a condensed font series or squeeze the letters.
When squeezing letters horizontally, care should be taken to make them a
bit bolder to compensate for the squeezing. For example, when a letter is
narrowed to 80% of its original width, the vertical lines become 20%
thinner. This is very noticeable (letters look skinny) and thus it should
be countered with making glyphs 20% bolder.
Here you can see a hand-made (that is, made with Paint) example how
this "lyric compressing" might look like, together with an example from
excellent Baerenreiter engraving:
http://lilypond-stuff.1065243.n5.nabble.com/examples-for-Lyric-report-compressing-Lyrics-td5607332.html
This issue is a part of the Lyrics Project. See related entries:
issue 2450
issue 2451
issue 2452
issue 2453
issue 2454
issue 2455
issue 2456
issue 2457
issue 2458
issue 2459
issue 2460
issue 2461
issue 2462
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