Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> >> Hmm.  What is the way to munge the text AFTER Lily's
> >> positioning work?
> >
> > what you probably would want is to set the extent of the
> > object
> 
> Is not it possible to temporarily redefine the function text
> in scm/tex.scm?  Or rather, substitute it somehow?  I do not
> know which scope it is invoked in...

No. scm/tex.scm does not report the width of the text. This is done by
(I believe) Text_item::brew_molecule().

Another possibility is rewriting that function for the lyrics (it's
very overengineered, you could do it much simpler). It could also take
care of the \R{} stuff.

> > The latter is going to be a lot easier if you use 1.7,
> > because creating new music expressions has become so much
> > easier.
> 
> Does 1.7 require guile-1.6?

yes.

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