Re: Automatic Lyric Extenders

[Alexander Kobel]

Hi again Samuel,

great that you find it useful. Yes, the minimum-length is 
well-tweakable; the default will likely be different in the "final" 
version. This version for killing extenders is my old and home-grown 
solution for my use cases and by no means optimized. It's not been long 
since Joram discovered that it is far more versatile and can be used to 
eliminate superfluous extenders, which allows exactly the functionality 
you asked for.

On 2016-12-19 23:30, Simon Albrecht wrote:
> On 19.12.2016 23:18, Br. Samuel Springuel wrote:
> > It'll take a bit to apply the autoextenders to all my scores in this
> > project,

If you have access to a standard Unix shell, the call
  sed -i -e '1s/^/\\include "autoextenders.ily"\n/' -e 
's/\\lyricmode/\\autoextenders\\lyricmode/' *.ly
might do wonders. Make a backup before, though.

Maybe the Windows users on the list have an equivalent Powershell 
command or can recommend a decent editor with that functionality?

> Maybe the autoextenders function could be added to
> toplevel-music-functions (a list of functions which will be applied to
> all music in the score). [...]

Simon, very good catch. Indeed this will work; \autoextenders only 
touches lyrics. Replace
  \new Score { ... }
  \score { ... }
by
  \new Score { \autoextenders { ... } }
  \score { \autoextenders { ... } }
and you should be good to go. Could be sed'ed as well, of course.

> Or that’s just too much of a hassle, since we can expect the
> functionality to end up in Lilypond proper soon.

Let's hope so!


Cheers,
Alexander