Re: Feature request: some way of manually breaking slurs, ties and lyric extenders

[Colin Hall]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:11:08PM +0100, Mike Solomon wrote:
> 
> On 11 déc. 2012, at 22:58, Colin Hall <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 07:14:33PM +0100, Mike Solomon wrote:
> >> 
> >> On 11 déc. 2012, at 18:56, Ben Rudiak-Gould <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:59 PM, address@hidden
> >>> <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>>> The website says that the file cannot be accessed for copyright reasons. 
> >>>> Could you post a public-domain score on a site that can be accessed by 
> >>>> any user?
> >>> 
> >>> It must be restricted by country since I can view it without any
> >>> special privileges. It's the Works of Henry Purcell vol. 22: Catches,
> >>> Rounds, Two-part and Three-part songs, published 1922. Here's another
> >>> example:
> >>> 
> >>> http://archive.org/stream/nationalsongbook00stan#page/n255/mode/2up
> >>> 
> >>> "She weepeth sore" (middle right) has a tie and a lyric extender
> >>> across parts, and a final half measure.
> >>> 
> >>> -- Ben
> >> 
> >> Got it.  In theory all of this is hackable via Scheme.  What you'd wanna 
> >> do is create custom engravers for both lyric extenders and ties.  The 
> >> engravers would attach these Spanners to the targeted note as well as the 
> >> next or previous NonMusicalPaperColumn (and broken variants thereof).  By 
> >> "attach" I mean use them as left and right bounds.  The rest should take 
> >> care of itself - LilyPond already knows how to engrave most spanners 
> >> between a NonMusicalPaperColumn and a note.
> >> 
> >> Cheers,
> >> MS
> > 
> > Thanks for the suggestion, Ben.
> > 
> > Mike, Ben, do you want a tracker for this?
> > 
> > Are you going to design a custom engraver, Ben, using Mike's
> > suggestion above, and try it out on your score first?
> > 
> > Give me a title for the tracker that makes sense to you.
> 
> I think perhaps "Allow for non-continuing broken spanners".
> What would be awesome is to find a generic way to implement this for all 
> spanners.

Thanks, Mike, I've created a new tracker here:

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3014

Cheers,
Colin.
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Colin Hall