On Sun, 17 May 2026, Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: > Maybe a good question for determining whether something should go into > main LilyPond would be: Is this addition something that improves a > shortcoming in LilyPond? If that is the case, I tend to think it would > be desirable to get it into LilyPond. >
I think that this is a good, very helpful heuristic. On Sun, 17 May 2026, Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: > With Lyrics, my gut feeling would be that there's room for improvement > in LilyPond's default handling; both Jean's code for spacing the notes > without regard for the lyrics and the currently discussed snippet for > eliminating spaces would be things that I would not too quickly rule out > could be desirable as regular LilyPond features. > +1 On Tue, 19 May 2026, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > As a first step I've set the 'official' category in the Wiki; this > will add it to the 'Snippet' documentation after the next Wiki import > so that a reference can be added to the NR. > Thank you, Werner! I am happy to help with proposing a documentation edit, once Magnetic lyrics is in https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.26/Documentation/snippets.
