Re: I want to develop automatic lyric contraction

[Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)]

Generally I would fix the first syllable's position (leaving it as it 
is), and then move the following ones closer to the first. I believe 
this would always produce pleasant results, as if one of the last 
syllables would go too early, then it would be still long enough to 
remain under the corresponding note (because if it weren't long, then it 
wouldn't make the hyphen disappear in normal spacing.)
However, there should be a way to change the first syllable's position, 
because in the hand-engraved scores I looked at, they often follow 
special rules: generally a syllable has 3 letters, it is centered under 
the note, but a 2 letter syllable is aligned to the left side of the 
note. So if you have a word with 2 syllables, like money, then in 
contraction ney will still be centered under its note, but mo will be 
moved to the right. But this is not general rule, so I think it would be 
enought to make sure there is a property, which in contraction 
situations would allow me to override the default spacing.

Bert

Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to dig myself into the C++ source of LilyPond.
> > I have a long-wished feature, for support automatic lyric contraction.
> > That means the following:
> > When there is not enough space for a hyphen to appear, the hyphen is 
> > removed. Like instead of "yeah - yeah - yeah", "yeah yeah yeah". In 
> > these cases I would like LilyPond to automatically contract it to 
> > "yeahyeah - yeah", moving the syllables, taking kerning into account.
> How would this contracted syllable be aligned to the two note heads?
>
>   /Mats