Re: New try with lyric extender

[David Nalesnik]

Hi Yann,

On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Yann <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello all :)

I wanted to try again to find a solution to adapt the length of a
lyric extender in order to take into account all voices in a SATB
hymn, as I described sometimes ago in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-11/msg00810.html
and following messages.

So I read some sections of the learning manual (about modifying
properties and tweaking, which I still don't fully understand). Using
the notation manual and internals reference, I found that lyric
extenders are object of the kind "Lyrics.LyricExtender" . Am I correct
till there ?

Then, I have the following questions :

-Is there a way to display (to console for example) the value of a
given property ?
I tried with #(Lyrics.LyricExtender.minimum-length) or \display
Lyrics.LyricExtender.minimum-length but I don't know where to place
such directive, should it be correct.
-If I'm not mistaken, I should be able to modify the properties of a
single object using for example \once \override
Lyrics.LyricExtender.minimum-length, placed somewhere before the
object I want to modify. Is it correct ?
-If so, is there a way to get the property of a particular single object ?

I've seen that there's a user settable property of the
lyric-extender-interface called "next". How can I access this ? Could
it be of some help for my current problem ?

I'm sorry if my questions look somehow messy, and not rigorous (I may
be confused between different concepts, such as properties,
interfaces...)

It would be much easier to answer your questions if you post a minimal example of what you want to do.

For example, there are several answers to

>>-Is there a way to display (to console for example) the value of a
>>given property ?

but I hesitate to write a treatise :)

--David