Re: strict notespacing with lyrics

[Simon Albrecht]

Am 23.04.2017 um 21:43 schrieb Noeck:
> Hi Simon,
>
> so far I used quite a few self-alignment tweaks (with a short-cut
> command). Your function looks helpful. Could you explain a bit what it
> does. IIUC the extreme cases are "centered" if there is only few space
> and "almost left aligned" if there is a lot of space and in between you
> interpolate smoothly.
>
> But what how is the space determined? It does not use the durations,
> does it? Is it about the available space or the with of a syllable or both?

Actually the function is very naive. It exclusively looks at the width 
of the syllable. If that width is 3 (staff-spaces) or less, 
self-alignment-X is set to 0, if it is 11 or more, self-alignment-X is 
-0.8. Between that, I interpolate smoothly with a ridiculous amount of 
effort that I only made for fun :-) (i.e. the kind of fun that I have 
recalling/finding out again how to solve a quadratic equation and 
implementing that in Scheme)
For everything else, an engraver would be needed.

Best, Simon