Re: is the lyric tie tweakable?

[David Nalesnik]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 6:02 PM, Kieren MacMillan
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is the built-in** lyric tie/elision tweakable? I’ve found that the 
> kerning/positioning changes fairly dramatically depending on the font being 
> used. I’d like to try to set its position globally (rather than having to 
> adjust each lyric pair it appears under), but couldn’t find the appropriate 
> grobs/interfaces/properties to attack.
>
> Thanks,
> Kieren.
>
> ** I know I can roll my own undertie glyph — I was doing that as early as 
> 2006 — but I’d rather adjust the built-in glyph/curve.
> ________________________________
>

There's no LyricTie grob, so no convenient way to tweak it.   You
could modify "tied-lyric" in scm/define-markup-commands.scm, since
that's what's engaged with the tilde.

-David