Re: Issue #786 (lyric extenders completing too early)

[Chris Snyder]

Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:

> I have not really thought it through, but would that work with the
> following code in lyric_engraver.cc:
>
>          if (melisma_busy (voice)
>              && !to_boolean (get_property ("ignoreMelismata")))
>            text_->set_property ("self-alignment-X",
>                 get_property("lyricMelismaAlignment"));
>
> There is the ignoreMelismata property, which makes Lilypond ignore all
> melismata. If melisma_busy would return True for "_", would this
> affect the skipped note? Or in other words, does the processing of "_"
> rely on the code above or not.
>
> And then there is the Lyric_combine_music_iterator::start_new_syllable
> function. would that still work?

I thought of another potential problem: Does melisma_busy know about 
Lyrics contexts at all? Perhaps I'm barking up completely the wrong tree 
here.

Chris Snyder
Adoro Music Publishing
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