Re: vowel aligned lyrics - want to improve it

[Janek Warchoł]

On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Mats Bengtsson
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I guess the proper way to obtain this would be to be able to set the
> reference point for the corresponding LyricText object to correspond to a
> certain character and let LilyPond calculate all widths as usual. Such a
> solution could then be embedded into a convenient Scheme function that finds
> the relevant character to use as the reference point. I did some related
> experiments with alignment of custom dynamics many years back, see solution
> 6 within http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=393 and related discussions in
> the mailing list archives.

Interesting.  My idea of core extents comes to mind:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2012-06/msg00230.html
As mentioned in my previous email, i'm currently working on rewriting
self-alignment-interface, and one of the things i'm going to implement
is being able to align on specific extents.  If you'd like to help
move this forward by reviewing my patches, that would be most welcome!

Google issue is here: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3239
code review here: https://codereview.appspot.com/7768043
Please ignore previous patchsets.  Also, it's best to view the changes
in a branch dev/janek-alignment (you can see each commit separately,
and this makes it easier to understand logical steps in changes -
Rietveld squashes everything together).

best,
Janek