Re: is the lyric tie tweakable?

[David Nalesnik]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 7:16 PM, Kieren MacMillan
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
>> \markup \tied-lyric \override #'(word-space . 2) #"le,~au”
>
> Bingo! Didn’t even need to add the extra parameters!
>
>> Don't know at the moment how to make this less cumbersome.
>
> I don’t need this to be less cumbersome — this completely solves my original 
> problem.
> (But this exercise did serve to fractionally increase my Scheme-fu…)
>

Nice to hear!

In any case, here's an experiment.  It allows for varying the
parameters within the lyricmode expression:

\version "2.19.59"

#(define (lyric-text::special-print overrides)
   (lambda (grob)
     (let ((text (ly:grob-property grob 'text)))
       (grob-interpret-markup
        grob
        (if (string? text)
            (fold
             make-override-markup
             (make-tied-lyric-markup text)
             overrides)
            text)))))

tiedLyricOverrides =
#(define-music-function (overrides) (list?)
   #{
     \override Lyrics.LyricText.stencil = #(lyric-text::special-print overrides)
   #})
{
  \relative {
    \autoBeamOff
    r8 b' c fis, fis c' b e,
  }
  \addlyrics {
    \tiedLyricOverrides #'((word-space . 5) (left-pad . 3))
    Che~in ques -- ta~e~in quel -- l'al -- tr'on -- da
  }
}

%%

Of course, you'd need to add the left-pad property and functionality
to \tied-lyric for it to have any effect.

Hope this is useful.  I'm not sure!

David