lyricWordEngraver enhancement proposal

[Simon Albrecht]

Hello David, hello list,

upon proofreading my latest larger lily project I had an idea for 
enhancement of your lyricWordEngraver: it would be very useful to have a 
\compressWord command, which is entered before a lyric syllable and then 
makes the following word be engraved as single string without hyphens. 
Well, I don’t quite have the technical knowledge to judge whether this 
is difficult or makes sense, and I hope that you also see a point in 
that I give ideas that I have and others add their technical knowledge. 
However, I might imagine that this would involve: – creating a 
word-compress-event, which is entered by \compressWord, – having the 
lyricWordEngraver collect these events and – using them to assist its 
decision on whether to compress or not (an opposite \noCompress or 
whatever would be conceivable also). Sometimes it would be useful if the 
resulting command worked inside words too to just apply to the remaining 
syllables of the word (or even only those enclosed in {}? just 
brainstorming).
I know that this is not a „sustainable” solution due to the shortcomings 
of the original approach (mainly because the note spacing remains just 
the same) but nevertheless, if I am right with my conjecture that this 
is not really involving, I think it would be worth it. Feel free to say 
that you don’t have time or a good mind now :-)

Best regards,
Simon