Re: lyric spacing : "why not follow instructions in manual"

[Geoff Horton]

Sorry to dredge up an old thread, but I've been working on converting
files to 2.7.38 for the last few days and I'm in full agreement with
Fr. P on this. The lyric spacing in 2.7.38 is very, very bad (see the
attached image, generated from the attached file--there's no way to
tell from the text alone that these are separate words), and widening
out the entire score is far from an optimal solution.

The 2.7.38 program reference still mentions a word-space property.
Trying to set it with a bad argument still produces an error message
(e.g., \override LyricText #'word-space = #'as produces a "warning:
type check for `word-space' failed; value `as' must be of type
`dimension, in staff space'" error message), so something in LilyPond
is looking at it. But setting it with a good argument (e.g., #10)
doesn't produce any visible change in the output.

I realize the hope is that 2.7.38 would be the final release
candidate, and I am very excited about some of the changes that have
been made from the 2.6 series, but problems with lyric spacing are
very major problems in my usage of the program, and I would like to
see them addressed before 2.8 is released. My preference would be for
the default lyric spacing to be improved.

Geoff

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