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

is the lyric tie tweakable?

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 globally (rather than having to adjust each lyric pair it appears under), but couldn’t find the