Re: Add prefix to lyrics

[Alexander Kobel]

On 2010-09-02 15:09, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> > As I sad, the problem is, that the usual dash (-) symbol is not really
> > looking like the hyphen. My question was, how to archieve it to display
> > a hyphen which looks very similar to the one generated by lilypond.
> > (Which seems to be rather a line than a character).
> [...]
>    \addlyrics { \once \override LyricText #'self-alignment-X = #0.6 \markup { 
> "Pro" \raise #0.47 \override #'(thickness . 1.3) \draw-line #'(0.55 . 0) phe } 
> -- tan }

Arrgh!  Don't you see that the lines are rounded with different corner 
sizes?  Looks terrible at 6400% zoom, as bad as on my homemade A-1 
borderless color-proofed metal-foil wallpaper prints!  ;-)

Seriously: I still think it's not The Right Thing (tm) that LyricHyphens 
don't use the dash glyph of the LyricText font, for the sake of easy 
reproduction of nice results.  (Read: You can't just use "Pro - phe". 
And there's a reason why fonts have a dash glyph and it's not simulated 
by the nice word processor of your choice.)

But this is absolutely close enough.  Clever idea to look up the Hyphen 
definition...


Cheers,
Alexander