Re: Text hyphenation

[David Kastrup]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:

>> If i understood correctly ("user can type '--' in his file and than
>> search-and-replace it to '\-' "), that's anti-usability and
>> anti-userfrindliness at it's best.
>
> Hehe.  No comment :-)
>
>> I will keep repeating (sorry): better change lyric hyphen command
>> than use different commands for lyric hyphen and markup hyphenation.
>> I don't care that much about what the command actually will be -
>> both '--' and '\-' are quite fine to me (i could live with '=' too)
>> - as long as it's the same in both cases.
>
> Ideally, this is configurable, both for lyrics and markup strings.
> Some people like `--' and `__', others like `\-' and `\_'.
>
> No idea whether this is easy to implement (probably not, I guess).
> What says our brain specialist, Dr. med. David K.?

Personally, I find it strange that we don't have things like \- and \_
be assignable as music functions, namely
"-" = #(define-music-function ...

For plain |, we use pipeSymbol, but it would make more sense if this
were
"\\|" = #...
even though it would be a bit strange to define the thing to be called
without backslash by defining it with backslash (the usual manner is the
other way round).  But I have not been able to think of something better
yet.

Anyway, defining the same command to do things analogously but
differently all the same in lyrics mode and markup strings...

Need to think about it.

-- 
David Kastrup