Re: naïve note-lyric spacing resolution

[Jan-Peter Voigt]

Hi Kieren,

I use some helper functions to enter edition-mods of the same kind. 
Again this might not be self-explaining ... but perhaps you get the 
idea. And of course: maybe it is more sufficient to use the 
markup-hammer and separate the lyrics from the music with a mace!

Jan-Peter


Am 15.06.2017 um 17:38 schrieb Kieren MacMillan:
> Hello again,
>
> Here's another example, solved a different way.
>
> BEFORE. Even with lyrics horizontally compressed to help, there are 
> visible note-spacing distortions:
>
>
> AFTER. I \omit-ted the lyrics (so that note-spacing reverted to 100% 
> 'neutral' spacing), then added the text back in (without any horizontal 
> glyph compression required!) as a hand-tweaked markup:
>
>
> There are obviously improvements that could still be made, but this is 
> closer to what I want in my score than the "BEFORE" version. If I could 
> take a *little* of the space out after each non-16th note and gain it 
> back after each 16th, it would be nearly perfect.
>
> Regardless, this takes a *huge* amount of manual effort — as much as I 
> hate to admit it, it takes more effort even than it would in something 
> like Finale or Sibelius [!!].
>
> Any help (however hackish) would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Kieren.
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