Re: Flexible lyric alignment

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi all,

I know many of you follow a “Do first” process… so even though that’s not my 
process, here goes.  ;)

Here's a small example of this spacing “thorn”, and one way I might tweak it to 
fix the problem.

Notes:
– I realize it's constructed to avoid the very issue(s) that Jean raises (i.e., 
there are no lyrics in the measures on either side of the main one)
– I realize the spacing I ended up with is not “perfect” (a.k.a. “enemy of the 
good”)
– I realize there are at least a dozen other ways of tweaking the spacing to 
accomplish the same goal (i.e., making the tuplet notes evenly spaced)
– I realize the fix to this constructed example wouldn't fix the OP's issue 
(i.e., shifting the LyricText “out of the way”)

I just thought talking through a concrete example might bring clarity to what 
has so far been a pretty abstract discussion.

My question: How can the tweak I've made here be automated *only considering 
the notes and lyrics in question, and not worrying about what might [or might 
not] happen once there are elements in the surrounding moments/measures that 
might collide?

Very much looking forward to seeing what comes of this thread!
Kieren.

p.s. Jean: “Coincidentally” ;), this example also includes the problem we’ve 
been discussing in the other thread, i.e., the inability to [natively] “inject” 
a tweak at a specific moment (without the use of spacer skips).

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\version "2.23.14"

\paper {
  top-margin = 0.5\in
  left-margin = 0.5\in
}

spacecase_notes = { R1 a'8 8 \tuplet 3/2 { 8 8 8 } 4 4 R1 }
spacecase_lyrics = \lyricmode { This is spaced a bit poor -- ly! }

\markup "1. Raw output:"
\score {
  <<
    \new Staff \new Voice = "melody" \spacecase_notes
    \new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" \spacecase_lyrics
  >>
}

\markup "2. Using NoteHead.extra-spacing-width to even out [only] tuplet note 
spacing:"
tweaksTwo = {
  s1
  s4 \temporary \override Score.NoteHead.extra-spacing-width = #'(0.5 . 4) s4 
\revert Score.NoteHead.extra-spacing-width
}
\score {
  <<
    \new Staff \new Voice = "melody" << \spacecase_notes \tweaksTwo >>
    \new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" \spacecase_lyrics
  >>
}
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