Re: LilyPond 2.1.30 released

[Werner LEMBERG]

> >   lilypond --generate-latex-data foo.ly > foo.tex
> >   latex foo.tex
> >   lilypond --use-latex-data foo.ly
> 
> This approach seems rather arcane to me.

`Arcane'?  Please explain.  Any better idea to get string dimensions
from TeX currently?

> However, with Scheme functions, you can already achieve this: write
> the texts to a .tex file, run latex, read back the dimensions, store
> them in a table, and do
> 
>   \override Lyrics #'X-extent-callback  = #(lambda (grob)
>      (lookup-latex-dimension the-dimension-table (ly:get-property grob 
> 'text)))

Will have a look, but I will need your assistance.


    Werner