Re: is the lyric tie tweakable?

[David Nalesnik]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 4:09 PM, Kieren MacMillan
<address@hidden> 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 scm/define-markup-commands.scm, since
>>> that's what's engaged with the tilde.
>>
>> I can’t seem to figure out how to add left-pad and right-pad as properties 
>> (with default 0)
>
> Okay, I believe I’ve solved that problem:
>
>   #:properties ((word-space)
>                 (left-pad 0)
>                 (right-pad 0))
>
> But how do I tweak the parameter in my input? I’ve tried things like
>
>     \tweak left-pad #-1 le,~au
>

These properties are accessed like

\override #'(left-pad . -1)

as any markup override.

-David