Re: Issue 1294 in lilypond: Version 2.13.35 does not properly represent lyric tie

[lilypond]

Comment #14 on issue 1294 by lemzwerg: Version 2.13.35 does not properly  
represent lyric tie
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1294

As discussed and described recently on the lily-user list, this is a font  
substitution problem which can't be controlled by LilyPond.

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-11/msg00494.html

The essence of this my email is

  It might be worth to extend the `~' feature so that a font can be
  specified for this particular glyph, something like

    \override LyricText #'lyric-tie-font = #"..."

  given that so many popular fonts are missing it...

As a workaround, we might warn users about this problem, giving a list of  
some fonts which actually contain a proper glyph for the lyric tie.