Re: Text hyphenation

[Janek Warchoł]

2011/9/25 Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>:
>
>>> I worked on this yesterday. I chose '--' instead of '\-'. The
>>> result is great (see attached).
>
> Mhmm.  Normally, in plain text, even in non-TeX related contexts, `--'
> means an en-dash or em-dash.  I *much* prefer `\-'.
>
>> Maybe it could work like -- in lyrics?  I mean, it would be nice to
>> be able to write a variable
>> someText = { some de -- mon -- stra -- tion text, hoo -- ray! }
>> and then either use it as lyrics, or use it as a markup with
>> hyphenation.  What do you think?
>
> I don't like it, since it is extremely unnatural to me if applied to
> longer texts.  Instead, I would prefer a simple Scheme function which
> converts `foo -- bar' into `foo\-bar' if desired.

I'd prefer changing lyric hyphen command from -- to \- instead of
creating such dichotomy.  Think about new users, they would be
confused by this.  We should never make things more complicated than
they must be, Lily is already too messy.

cheers,
Janek