On 1/22/2010 3:17 AM, Mark D Lew wrote:
algorithm looking at the lyric syllables at all. For such a piece, I'd space the entire thing with lyrics unchecked. Then if there are one or two measures where the lyrics collide, go back and respace just those measures with lyrics checked.
This brings to mind a feature request I made a few years back: spacing styles, which could be applied to measures like staff styles. There are many instances where spacing as a document-wide setting is clearly inappropriate, and having to remember to (a) change the setting, (b) space the problem measures, and then (c) change the setting back is a hassle. We should be able to set the document spacing for something like "avoid lyric collisions" and then apply a style to melismatic measures with "avoid lyric collisions" unset. Then we could space the whole piece at once.
This came up in my case when I was doing a piece which moved mostly in moderato or allegro quarter notes, but which had one section in largo 4/8. For that section, I wanted wider spacing to make the change to an eighth note pulse more obvious, and I had to go through the same gymnastics of remembering to manually space that section differently.
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