Re: Issue 1294 - Lyric ties

[Phil Holmes]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
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> I'm checking some of the lyric-based issues in case they've been fixed in
> the latest release, and came back across
>
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1294
>
> which reported that Lyric ties do not work in 2.13.  It was added as a
> regression, then downgraded for reasons that aren't entirely clear to me
> except that the reasons for it aren't clearly understood.  I think it was
> believed that adding "The lyric tie is implemented with the Unicode
> character U+203F, so be sure to have a font (like DejaVuLGC) installed 
> that
> includes this glyph." to the NR was a good enough workaround.
>
> I don't believe it is.  A minor nitpick is that DejaVuLGC does not include
> this glyph in its seriffed versions, AFAICS - it's in DejaVu Sans - a sans
> serif font.  Now, I've just gone and got both of those fonts and installed
> them.  If I explicitly set the LyricText font-name to DejaVu Sans, then I
> get satisfactory lyric ties.  If I don't, then I get short lyric ties,
> different from the documented output.  My test file as below gives the
> attached image.
>
> {
>  \time 3/4
>  \relative c' { c2 e4 g2 e4 }
>  \addlyrics { gran- de_a- mi- go }
>  \addlyrics { pu- "ro y ho-" nes- to }
>  \addlyrics { pu- ro~y~ho- nes- to }
>  \addlyrics {
>    \override LyricText #'font-name = #"DejaVu Sans"
>    pu- ro~y~ho- nes- to
>  }
> }
>
> Now - there's one other interesting feature here.  If I delete the fourth
> line of the lyrics above (the one with the explicit font) and run Lily
> 2.13.49, saving the PS file, it has the following in the postscript 
> header:
>
> %%DocumentMedia: a4 595.28 841.89 80 () ()
> %%DocumentSuppliedResources: font CenturySchL-Roma
> %%DocumentSuppliedResources: font Emmentaler-20
> %%DocumentSuppliedResources: font MS-Gothic
> %%EndComments
>
> If I run the same file in 2.12.3 I get:
>
> %%DocumentMedia: a4 595.28 841.89 80 () ()
> %%DocumentSuppliedResources: font CenturySchL-Roma
> %%DocumentSuppliedResources: font DejaVuSans
> %%DocumentSuppliedResources: font Emmentaler-20
> %%DocumentSuppliedResources: font feta-alphabet20
> %%EndComments
>
> which is interesting - 2.12 has found a font with the glyph in, and has
> automatically used it.  2.13 doesn't do this.
>
> Sorry - but this, for me, is back to looking like a regression.


Aargh.  2.12 image was attached.  This one has the one from 2.13.49.

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Phil Holmes
Bug Squad

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