Re: Word hyphenation in LilyPond version 2.18.2.

[Knut Petersen]

Hi Simon!

> It’s a known issue that this is not possible to do in LilyPond, which is why 
> (almost?) everybody to typeset such large projects with LilyPond has used 
> LilyPond only for the music itself and embedded the output in *TeX or other 
> word-processing/publishing software.

Well, hyphenation is not the only reason not to try to typeset large portions 
of text with lilypond ;-)

What we need is automatic hyphenation for lyrics ... but the standard
algorithm (read the thesis ofFranklin Mark Liang) is not optimal
because it is not designed to find _all_ possible hyphenations and because
hyphenation for lyrics might differ from the standard: German rules
do not allow e.g. to hyphenate a word like "über" in normal texts, but we
would need "ü-ber" for lyrics.

Of course it is possible to define a scheme function that passes its
arguments to an external stand-alone hyphenator (yet to be written?)
and read back the results ...

cu,
 Knut