Re: Lyric word engraver bug

[David Nalesnik]

Here's an unrelated suggestion.

When you use \wordcompress with a value which triggers the warning, the music function doesn't return music, so you end up with a fatal error (rather defeating the gentle purpose of a simple warning!)

Why not something like:

wordcompress =

#(define-music-function (parser location num) (number?)

   (cond

    ((> num 0.5)

     (and (ly:warning "Attention: 0.4 is a rather large value for \\wordcompress already!")

          (make-music 'Music)))

    ((< num 0)

     (ly:error "\\wordcompress should get a non-negative value."))

    (else #{ 

      \override LyricWord.after-line-breaking = #(lyric-word-compressor num)

      \override LyricHyphen.minimum-distance = #0

      \override LyricSpace.minimum-distance = #1

      #})))