Re: Flexible lyric alignment

[Jean Abou Samra]

> Le 16 nov. 2022 à 09:36, Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> a écrit :
> 
> I think that such a fine granularity of automatic lyric adjustment
> would only be possible with LilyPond doing (at least) two typesetting
> passes, if at all.



Can you elaborate? What would it help with?



> In general, implementing a second pass – note that I have *no* clue
> whether this is easy or hard to implement – might help solve other
> problems, too, for example typsetting primo and secondo layout for
> four-hand music (https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/902).


That issue looks like a lot of busywork to overhaul the page breaking engine 
for working on several scores in parallel, but on the conceptual level it 
doesn’t look difficult to me.


Jean