Re: LyricText word-space has no effect.

[David Kastrup]

Dominic <address@hidden> writes:

> /\version "2.19.64"
>
> \score {
>       <<
>               \relative c' { c8 d e f g a b16 b c8 }
>               \addlyrics { one two three four five six se -- ven eight }
>       >>
> }
>
> \layout {
>       \context {
>               \Score
>                       \override LyricText.word-space = #9
>       }
> }/
>
> The above code should produce lyrics with a very wide spacing, but it has no
> effect at all. Is this a bug?

No.  I think word-space only comes into play when there are actual
spaces like

"Et in nomine tuum aeternum"

Not when you have a lot of different syllables not containing any space
internally.

So it more or less applies to "drone notes" which are filled with
multiple syllables.

-- 
David Kastrup