Re: Feature request: some way of manually breaking slurs, ties and lyric extenders

[Colin Hall]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 07:14:33PM +0100, Mike Solomon wrote:
> 
> On 11 déc. 2012, at 18:56, Ben Rudiak-Gould <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:59 PM, address@hidden
> > <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> The website says that the file cannot be accessed for copyright reasons. 
> >> Could you post a public-domain score on a site that can be accessed by any 
> >> user?
> > 
> > It must be restricted by country since I can view it without any
> > special privileges. It's the Works of Henry Purcell vol. 22: Catches,
> > Rounds, Two-part and Three-part songs, published 1922. Here's another
> > example:
> > 
> >  http://archive.org/stream/nationalsongbook00stan#page/n255/mode/2up
> > 
> > "She weepeth sore" (middle right) has a tie and a lyric extender
> > across parts, and a final half measure.
> > 
> > -- Ben
> 
> Got it.  In theory all of this is hackable via Scheme.  What you'd wanna do 
> is create custom engravers for both lyric extenders and ties.  The engravers 
> would attach these Spanners to the targeted note as well as the next or 
> previous NonMusicalPaperColumn (and broken variants thereof).  By "attach" I 
> mean use them as left and right bounds.  The rest should take care of itself 
> - LilyPond already knows how to engrave most spanners between a 
> NonMusicalPaperColumn and a note.
> 
> Cheers,
> MS

Thanks for the suggestion, Ben.

Mike, Ben, do you want a tracker for this?

Are you going to design a custom engraver, Ben, using Mike's
suggestion above, and try it out on your score first?

Give me a title for the tracker that makes sense to you.

Cheers,
Colin.

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Colin Hall