Re: Adjusting space in a lyric tie

[Aaron Hill]

On 2019-01-19 8:02 pm, David F. wrote:
> On Jan 19, 2019, at 8:53 PM, Kieren MacMillan
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Hi David,
> >
> > > How do I adjust the space between two syllables/words that are tied?  
> > > LyricSpace.minimum-distance works for words that are not tied.
> >
> > \override Lyrics.LyricHyphen.minimum-distance = #2
> >
> > Hope that helps!
>
> Thanks Kieren, but I wasn’t clear enough in my initial request for
> help.  I want to increase the space inside the lyric tie.  So if I
> have “some~word”, I’d like to have a little more space between “some”
> and “word”.  LyricHyphen.minimum-distance doesn’t do that.

LyricText.word-space is what you want to adjust.  Note that it doesn't 
stretch the size of the tie.

%%%%
\version "2.19.82"
\new Lyrics \lyricmode {
  \override LyricText.word-space = #0 o~o
  \override LyricText.word-space = #1 o~o
  \override LyricText.word-space = #2 o~o
}
%%%%

-- Aaron Hill

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