Valentin Petzel <valen...@petzel.at> writes: >> Am Montag, 7. Februar 2022, 21:30:21 CET schrieb: >>> Thanks to all for your answers. The trick suggested by Valentin works for >>> me. >>> >>> Anyway it looks like there’s no option to directly adjust letter spacing, >>> something like \kern macro in LaTeX, right? > > No. As Lilypond is a music typesetter, not a text typesetter, the text > typesetting options in Lilypond are quite rudimentary. This means that > Lilypond has no interface for these things. So kerning in Lilypond markup > usually means taking two markups and putting them next to each other with > some > (potentially negative) distance.
Which is pretty much what \kern does in TeX. The difference between a \kern and \hspace in TeX is that \hspace indicates a possible breakpoint (and when a break happens there, it will get removed), and \hspace can take flexible glue specifications. And I am not sure but \kern may be transparent to hyphenation. LilyPond's \hspace takes no flexible glue specifications and cannot become a breakpoint either, and hyphenation is not a thing. So I have no idea what your "No." is supposed to mean. -- David Kastrup
