Hello Bodo! On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 09:19:29AM +0000, Bodo Meissner wrote: > Suggested change for MusiXLYR: > The syllable or word at a melisma should be centered if it's longer > than the space for the notes and if there is space to the left. > If the space is to small for centering, it should be left shifted as > much as possible.
I'm sorry, but that's definitely not possible: musixlyr has no idea about the notes spacing surrounding the attachment of a specific syllable. All it knows is the horizontal position of the related note, the width of the current syllable and the available space to the previous syllable. It's therefore possible to right-shift lyrics to avoid collisions on the left, but unfortunately impossible to anticipate collisions that will take place on the right side of the current syllable. To enable such a behaviour, MusiXTeX's notes placement algorithm itself would have to take lyrics space consumtion into account, which is is currently not implemented at all. Generally, I can see two solutions in space-critical lyrics situations: You may either resort to a generally wider music spacing (e.g. by requesting a greater \linegoal) or, if that's not feasible, by manual corrections to the lyrics or notes spacing. I hope that this doesn't occur too frequently. Best regards, Rainer _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
