Re: No space with lyric tie

[Arvid Grøtting]

Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen <at> lilypond.org> writes:

> The tie has a negative space, so it is starts below the syllables
> This was  by request of Nancho, and he had scans to confirm that this is 
> typesetting practice.

I agree that the tie should start -- and end -- below the tied
syllables, but there should be a visible space.  Strangely, there is
visible space in the online examples (e.g. regression test), but I
don't get any space in actual scores (or in the example I sent).  It
seems I get too much negative space.

(In one example, "ve -- sti~e~i giar -- din", the two lyric ties
actually overlap.)

I can't find Nancho's scans, but I think the scores I've seen with a
lyric tie have a small, but visible space between the words.

I'll see if I can find some relevant scores to scan.  (Lyric ties
aren't used much in most of the languages we sing; I think I've only
ever seen them in italian lyrics.)

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Arvid