Re: is the lyric tie tweakable?

Hi Kieren, David & all, I was searching for a way to shift the lyric tie around and I found this thread from a year back. It looked promising and so I tried David's cool looking tiedLyricOverrides thingy but it only worked partially. I can adjust the word-space but the left-pad does not have any

Re: is the lyric tie tweakable?

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 7:45 PM, David Nalesnik wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 7:16 PM, Kieren MacMillan > wrote: >> Hi David, >> >>> \markup \tied-lyric \override #'(word-space . 2) #"le,~au” >> >> Bingo! Didn’t even need to add the

Re: is the lyric tie tweakable?

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 7:16 PM, Kieren MacMillan 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

Re: is the lyric tie tweakable?

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

Re: is the lyric tie tweakable?

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 6:38 PM, Kieren MacMillan < kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hi David, > > \override is actually a markup command here, > > and as such needs to be preceded by \markup. > > > But then it doesn’t execute the lyric tie function *at all*: > > > > \markup \tied-lyric

Re: is the lyric tie tweakable?

Hi David, > \override is actually a markup command here, > and as such needs to be preceded by \markup. But then it doesn’t execute the lyric tie function *at all*: Thanks, Kieren. Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info

Re: is the lyric tie tweakable?

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 5:50 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi David, > >> These properties are accessed like >> \override #'(left-pad . -1) >> as any markup override. > > I tried that, of course — it returns > > error: not a key > \override >

Re: is the lyric tie tweakable?

Hi David, > These properties are accessed like > \override #'(left-pad . -1) > as any markup override. I tried that, of course — it returns error: not a key \override #'(left-pad . -1) le,~au soir, __ à __ la chan -- del -- le, __ This is in a \lyricmode block, if that makes a

Re: is the lyric tie tweakable?

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 4:09 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi David (et al.), > Is the built-in** lyric tie/elision tweakable? >> >>> There's no LyricTie grob, so no convenient way to tweak it. You >>> could modify "tied-lyric" in

Re: is the lyric tie tweakable?

Hi David (et al.), >>> Is the built-in** lyric tie/elision tweakable? > >> There's no LyricTie grob, so no convenient way to tweak it. You >> could modify "tied-lyric" in scm/define-markup-commands.scm, since >> that's what's engaged with the tilde. > > I can’t seem to figure out how to add

Re: is the lyric tie tweakable?

Hi David (et al.), >> Is the built-in** lyric tie/elision tweakable? > There's no LyricTie grob, so no convenient way to tweak it. You > could modify "tied-lyric" in scm/define-markup-commands.scm, since > that's what's engaged with the tilde. I manually tweaked that function (see snippet,

Re: is the lyric tie tweakable?

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 6:02 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi all, > > Is the built-in** lyric tie/elision tweakable? I’ve found that the > kerning/positioning changes fairly dramatically depending on the font being > used. I’d like to try to set its position