Good day, I'm working on a script for laying out a song book that includes lyrics and chords. Chord names need to be placed above each line of lyrics, at the appropriate spot in the lyrics. I've explored a variety of approaches to this using typographic options to try to get the chord letters bumped up above the lyrics line using baseline shift and kerning adjustments, but so far these have not proved effective.
My present approach is to put each chord in a small text box above the lyrics line. In order to do this, I need to be able to determine the horizontal position of that point in the lyrics, as rendered in the relevant font and type size. Does anyone know of a way to do this? Apparently the ImageFont python module (which is a subset of PIL, or the Python Imaging Library), can return the width of a text line as rendered, but I so far have not been able to get this module working properly (there's a C library involved, which is malfunctioning in my installation). Does anyone know of any other way to programatically measure the rendered width of a line of text? Thanks for your help! Adam
