Re: lyrics hyphens question

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi David (et al.),

These are questions regarding the "lyric-word-reconstituter" in the thread 
which includes the post 
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2014-03/msg00489.html>.

I'd love to use it (or something like it) in my engravings going forward.

1. It doesn't seem to work with 2.19.61 (at least), and convert-ly doesn't seem 
to help. The error is

    warning: type check for `LyricWord' failed; value `#<Grob_properties>' must 
be of type `list'

My instinct (and a quick search on -user) led me to believe that changing

    (set-object-property! grob-name 'translation-type? list?)

to

    (set-object-property! grob-name 'translation-type? ly:grob-properties?)

might fix the problem. The file/example now compiles without error. Did I fix 
it correctly?

2. This is a workaround/hack/fix from 2014. At the time, there was some 
question as to whether Janek might roll this (or similar) into the GSoC Lyric 
project… but that is, I believe, dead in the water. Is there any hope of 
getting this into the codebase? I'm happy to take this "stub" (much more than a 
stub, of course!) and shepherd it through the dev process to the goal line — 
but I don't want to start down a track that will ultimately lead to frustration 
or nowhere at all.

Thanks,
Kieren.

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