#2456 Lyrics shouldn't distort the rhythmical placement of notes

[Anonymous]

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Currently lyric syllabes are center-aligned - horizontal center of the syllabe is placed under respective notehead (with exception of melismas which are left-aligned).  This leads to poor results - when there is a long syllabe attached to a short note (it happens quite often!), the horizontal spacing of notes is stretched, distorting the rhythm.

A master engraver would move the lyric syllabes instead of moving notes; there are plenty examples.  The rules are quite simple:
1) the syllabe should remain under the note (i.e. the whole width of the notehead should be placed over respective syllabe).
2) it is preferred to move syllabes to the right.

see attached image.  More examples, icluding some comparisons, here:
http://lilypond-stuff.1065243.n5.nabble.com/examples-for-Lyric-report-moving-syllabes-to-fit-rhythm-td5607291.html

This issue is a part of the Lyrics Project.  See related entries:
issue 2450
issue 2451
issue 2452
issue 2453
issue 2454
issue 2455
issue 2456
issue 2457
issue 2458
issue 2459
issue 2460
issue 2461
issue 2462

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Originally posted by: janek.li...@gmail.com

I've tried writing an algorithm that would do this, but apparently is should be done with some kind of a heuristic instead of a deterministic algorithm.