> The second bug is super hard to fix: when you tell LilyPond about > spacing constraints between lyrics, before line breaking, you need > to assume a lyric syllable won't be moved to the left by > 'magnetism', because if you do, the spacer might think it can space > its right neighbor more to the left due to the space left by moving > the syllable to the left, and if the compression cannot actually be > done, it will collide. But when the compression does get done, and > the room is left empty, horizontal spacing has already been done and > it is too late to tell the right neighbor that it would have room on > its left. Am I making sense?
This makes sense, thanks! Werner