Re: Magnetic snapping of syllables and hyphenating long words

[Janne Uusitalo]

Hmph,

somebody ate my attachments. Well, here they are: http://reema.fi/lilypond/.

Regards,
Janne

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 11:25 AM, Janne Uusitalo
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I haven’t been on this list for quite some time, so I tried my best to
> scan the archives for previous contributions to the topic. Sorry if I
> missed something, but here’s what I gathered:
>
> • In December 2013 [1], David and Kieren wrote a piece of code to
> prevent small gaps from appearing between syllables that are too close
> for hyphens. In March 2014 [2], David posted an improved version of
> it, complete with examples.
> • In September 2014 [3], Simon reported a bug in the engraver,
> describing how it breaks the hyphenation of long words that span
> across two systems. David responded [4] with a fix ("a simple change
> from the > operator to >=  in a function").
> • In February 2015 [5], Simon reported a regression between versions
> 2.19.8 and 2.19.15, which David also had a solution to [6]. (I’m
> running 2.18.2, so this part isn’t relevant to the following, but I’m
> including it in case it helps someone else.)
>
> For me at least, the fix in [4] causes the original gap problem to
> reappear. I’m attaching a minimal test example and the results of it
> when using > (test1, no gaps but hyphenation broken) or >= (test2,
> hyphenation works but there are gaps) on line 171 of lyric-word.ily.
> (In my current project, I’m using the more recent version from [5] but
> the outcome is the same.)
>
> This topic was also discussed in
> https://code.google.com/archive/p/lilypond/issues/2458 where Janek
> (Happy Bird) concluded, in July 2015: "needs_work". Has any work that
> I’m unaware of been done since?
>
> [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2013-12/msg00425.html
> [2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2014-03/msg00489.html
> [3] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2014-09/msg00047.html
> [4] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2014-09/msg00124.html
> [5] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-02/msg00742.html
> [6] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-02/msg00745.html
>
> Kind regards,
> Janne