Re: vowel aligned lyrics - want to improve it

[Mats Bengtsson]

On 04/04/2013 11:50 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Someone on the French users mailing list would like to align lyrics
> on the first vowel.
> http://lilypond-french-users.1298960.n2.nabble.com/Alignement-des-paroles-sur-la-premiere-voyelle-td7579353.html
>
> I found this thread but searching the LSR with the keyword "vowel"
> gives no result (and, of course, nothing about this in the doc).
>
> 1. Could someone confirm me this is the latest version of the code for
> "vowel aligned lyrics" feature?
> 2. If it's effectively not on the LSR, could it be added?
> 3. It would be great to have "vowel aligned lyrics" directly in
> LilyPond; could this be added to the tracker as feature request?
I guess the proper way to obtain this would be to be able to set the 
reference point for the corresponding LyricText object to correspond to 
a certain character and let LilyPond calculate all widths as usual. Such 
a solution could then be embedded into a convenient Scheme function that 
finds the relevant character to use as the reference point. I did some 
related experiments with alignment of custom dynamics many years back, 
see solution 6 within http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=393 and 
related discussions in the mailing list archives.

   /Mats