Re: lyrics dashes

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Christian Hitz wrote:
> Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen <at> xs4all.nl> writes:
>
>
> > Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> >
> > > > is there a standard way to detect the hyphen position?
> > >
> > >
> > > I don't think so.  Contrary to the x-height of glyphs there is no
> > > necessity normally to get this value.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > Or should we shove "-" down pango, and take the BBox of that?
> > >
> > >
> > > This sounds like an excellent idea, since we not only get the right
> > > position but the correct thickness too.
> > >
> > > BTW, is it possible to use the font's dash glyph itself?  In some
> >
> > I guess it is, but will require slight rehacking.
>
>
> The behavior described by Werner has a much greater effect if the lyrics
> are scaled as in the example below.

I fixed this in CVS. Note that you should use

 \set  fontSize = #5

if you want to scale everything, not just the lyrics themselves.
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