Re: Text hyphenation

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> 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.

Hmm.  Not too bad an idea.  `__' could be then represented as `\_'.

> 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.

Actually, we don't *need* `\-' at all since Unicode already provides
characters to control hyphenation:

  00AD    SOFT HYPHEN 
  2010    HYPHEN
  2011    NON-BREAKING HYPHEN

Bertrand, does your code work support them?


     Werner