Re: do narrow and bold-narrow font-series exist? How can i squish Lyrics horizontally?

[James Lowe]

Hello,

-----Original Message-----
From: Janek Warchoł <address@hidden>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:01:28 +0100
To: lilypond-user <address@hidden>
Subject: do narrow and bold-narrow font-series exist? How can i squish
Lyrics horizontally?

>Hi,
>
>according to internals
>(http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/internals/lyrictext)
>there is something like "bold-narrow" font-series. However the
>following snippet doesn't work as expected - ?
>
>\version "2.13.45"
>
>\score {
>  <<
>  \relative c' { c4 d e f c4 d e f }
>  \addlyrics { blah blah blalah blalah \override LyricText
>#'font-series = #'bold-narrow blah blah blalah blalah }
>  >>
>}
>
>I need to make lyrics smaller horizontally, without changing font-size
>to smaller. I hoped that maybe a narrow font-series exists, but
>bold-narrow and narrow aren't proper values for font-series property.
>I also searched for a way to change the distances between individual
>letters, but i didn't find relevat properties. Any ideas?

You maybe looking too hard at this.

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/fonts#single-entry-fon
ts

Just use a font that is narrower.

James
>