Hanzi lyrics auto space minor misalignment

[suntong]

First time user here and thank you Mr. Silas S. Brown for providing such a wonderful tool to the jianpu world.

So I'm trying out the Hanzi lyrics auto space feature, and notice a minor misalignment in the .png file output:

(The previous with space version is above, and without space version is below)

Does it appear a bit misalignment to you as well please?

The test input file is https://github.com/suntong/jianpu/blob/master/Friends-%E6%9C%8B%E5%8F%8B2.jp

Comparing to the previous with space version, here are the differences I found in the generate .ly file:

-\new Lyrics = "IX" { \lyricsto "jianpu" { 這 些 年 一 個 人 風 也 過 雨 也 走 有 過 淚 有 過 錯 還 記 得 堅 持 什 麼 真 愛 過 才 會 懂 會 寂 寞 會 回 首 終 有 夢 終 有 你 在 心 中 } } 
+\new Lyrics = "IX" { \lyricsto "jianpu" { \override LyricText #'self-alignment-X = #LEFT 這 些 年 一 個 人 風 也 過 雨 也 走 有 過 淚 有 過 錯 還 記 得 堅 持 什 麼 真 愛 過 才 會 懂 會 寂 寞 會 回 首 終 有 夢 終 有 你 在 心 中 } } 
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Please double check.
Again, all test files are under https://github.com/suntong/jianpu. thanks.

[suntong]

Pleas also take a look at the version of https://github.com/suntong/jianpu/blob/525578b30497f4c1807c667d483032bc4b358a81/Friends-%E6%9C%8B%E5%8F%8B2.jp

I.e., the Hanzi lyrics was arranged like this:

這些年 一個人 風也過 雨也走 有過淚 有過錯 還記得堅持什麼 ...

I.e., it is a more natural way to group words into sentences in Chinese.
If such format can produce as nice output as the with space version, that'd be wonderful.

[suntong]

If such format can produce as nice output as the with space version, that'd be wonderful.

Hmm, it turns out to be a bit challenging -- please take a look at
https://github.com/suntong/jianpu/blob/master/mmd-木棉道.png

and note the last line 愛 情 就 像, & 蟬 聲 綿 綿 斷, it should line up like this:

How to fix my input to get the desired output please?

[ssb22]

Hi, the exact alignment might depend on which version of Lilypond you're using and which hanzi fonts are available on your system (which will be different on Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux etc) so this won't be easy to check. Also I am legally blind (which is kind-of why I am trusting Lilypond to do the right thing).

The reason why left alignment is used in hanzi auto-spacing is so that any word followed by ， or 。 etc will have the ， or 。 etc off to the right, without pushing the main character to the left. That's what it did before I put the 'left alignment' in. Obviously if you are not using ， or 。 etc then you won't need left alignment.

Existing spaces in the input don't mean much when you use the H: option. This is so you can copy-paste lyrics from websites that put spaces in silly places when you copy-paste.

If you don't use the H: option, then you have a bit more control over the spacing. But the lyrics will still be spaced according to the music: if there's a long note, that will take more space no matter what word it is, because of the musical rule that long notes should always take more space than short notes.

[suntong]

Got it. Thanks!