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Re: Custom lyric extender


From: Trevor Daniels
Subject: Re: Custom lyric extender
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 10:37:48 +0100


The lyric extender is actually drawn as a long thin box with rounded corners. AFAIK there is no easy way to replace this with any other sort of symbol, but maybe someone can prove me wrong.

Trevor

----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Johnson" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 3:16 PM
Subject: Custom lyric extender



I've recently started working with Lilypond (2.11.45, Mac OS X) and am hugely
impressed - congratulations to all involved.
My main interest is contemporary vocal and choral music. Here, one commonly
needs to indicate a transition from one phoneme to the next.  It seems
natural to do this with a lyric extender and Kieren MacMillan in
http://www.nabble.com/lyrics-extender-lines-until-the-end-of-the-last-note-of-the-melisma-td11849989.html#a11849989
this post  suggested a way to force an extender right to the next lyric
syllable.  Assuming one isn't using extenders for normal melismas, one can
create a thick line suitably spaced in this way:


\context {

 \Lyrics

   \override LyricExtender #'thickness = #6

   \override LyricExtender #'left-padding = #2

   \override LyricExtender #'right-padding = #2

}

However, composers indicate transitions in many different ways - lines,
dashes, arrows, or double lines, wavy lines - which may be vertically
centered or on the lyric baseline. How can one customize the lyric extender
symbol or create a special function to do this?  Is there a better way
altogether?  I'm no coder and this is just beyond me, but I'm sure someone
out there can help.

Many thanks.

Peter

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