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From: | Kieren MacMillan |
Subject: | Re: LyricHyphen hara-kiri |
Date: | Sat, 21 Dec 2013 16:26:08 -0500 |
Hi David,OK, a little experimentation showed that the right syllable, -bar, is not shifted on the first line because, for some reason, there is no stencil for the non-printed hyphen, yet there is one for the non-printed hyphens on subsequent lines. This means that the variable sten-ex gets assigned the empty interval, and no shift occurs. This definitely improved the situation… but it still leaves gaps under certain circumstances, e.g. here’s the fourth line (starting at m28): I think [to begin with] there are two separate issues to consider here: 1. In m.28, it’s clear that “foo bar” has not become one Pango string, which it apparently has on the downbeat of m.29 (and really “should”, I imagine, in any “ultimate fix”). 2. If “foo-bar" happens over a barline, it probably shouldn’t be compressed; at the very least, that should be a settable property (analogous: #’to-barline). Thanks, Kieren. p.s. I know this isn’t likely to be a super-quick fix — if it becomes too big, let’s negotiate a bounty amount. =) |
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