Re: Adjusting space in a lyric tie

[Aaron Hill]

On 2019-01-19 9:15 pm, David F. wrote:
> On Jan 19, 2019, at 10:06 PM, Aaron Hill <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
>
> > LyricText.word-space is what you want to adjust.  Note that it doesn't 
> > stretch the size of the tie.
>
> Perfect!  Thanks!

And just for completeness, here is how you can manually construct a tie 
of arbitrary width:

%%%%
\version "2.19.82"
\markup {
  \tied-lyric #"o~o"
  \concat {
    o
    \lower #0.4 \with-dimensions #'(0 . 0.6) #'(0 . 0) \scale #'(1 . 
0.65)
    \stencil #(make-tie-stencil '(-0.5 . 0) '(1.1 . 0) 0.25 DOWN)
    o
  }
  \concat {
    >
    \lower #0.4 \with-dimensions #'(0 . 2) #'(0 . 0) \scale #'(1 . 0.45)
    \stencil #(make-tie-stencil '(-1 . 0) '(3 . 0) 0.4 DOWN)
    <
  }
}
%%%%

The first is the normal tied lyric behavior.  The second is a close 
approximation with the manual process.  The third is a wider example.

There are quite a few numbers to adjust, but you do get a lot more 
flexibility.

- \lower is used to place the stencil a specific distance away from the 
base of the lyrics.
- \with-dimensions is used to allow some horizontal overlap with the tie 
and the lyrics.  This is where you would want to specify the absolute 
space between words.
- \scale is used to flatten the tie which, over longer distances, will 
end up being too tall compared to the standard lyric tie.
- \stencil #(make-tie-stencil start stop thickness direction) is the 
actual command for generating the tie.  It is positioned slightly left 
and right of the previously defined horizontal extents to create the 
desired overlap.  Thickness is increased to counteract the vertical 
scaling.


-- Aaron Hill

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