I want to develop automatic lyric contraction

2009-06-22 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Hi, I'd like to dig myself into the C++ source of LilyPond. I have a long-wished feature, for support automatic lyric contraction. That means the following: When there is not enough space for a hyphen to appear, the hyphen is removed. Like instead of yeah - yeah - yeah, yeah yeah yeah. In

Re: I want to develop automatic lyric contraction

2009-06-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: Hi, I'd like to dig myself into the C++ source of LilyPond. I have a long-wished feature, for support automatic lyric contraction. That means the following: When there is not enough space for a hyphen to appear, the hyphen is removed. Like instead of yeah

Re: I want to develop automatic lyric contraction

2009-06-22 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Generally I would fix the first syllable's position (leaving it as it is), and then move the following ones closer to the first. I believe this would always produce pleasant results, as if one of the last syllables would go too early, then it would be still long enough to remain under the

Re: I want to develop automatic lyric contraction

2009-06-22 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)lilypondt...@organum.hu wrote: I'd like to dig myself into the C++ source of LilyPond. I have a long-wished feature, for support automatic lyric contraction. That means the following: When there is not enough space for a hyphen to

Re: I want to develop automatic lyric contraction

2009-06-22 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)lilypondt...@organum.hu wrote: I'd like to dig myself into the C++ source of LilyPond. I have a long-wished feature, for support automatic lyric contraction. That means the following: When there is not