Re: Forced lyric hyphen

[Aaron Hill]

On 2020-07-11 7:33 am, Fr. Samuel Springuel wrote:
> Is there a tweak/override that can be applied which will force a
> particular lyric hyphenEvent to always appear show its hyphen (moving
> lyrics/notes around if needed)?  I’m trying to deal with hyphenated
> words (“loving-kindness” in this particular example) and the
> hyphenEvent hyphen disappears under some circumstances if I use it
> exclusively and manually inserting a text hyphen into one of the
> syllables makes for an inconsistent double hyphen in others:
>
>
> \version "2.20.0"
>
> \new Staff
> <<
>     \new Voice = "mel" { g' g' g' g' }
>     \new Lyrics \lyricsto "mel" { lov -- ing -- kind -- ness }
> > >
>
> \new Staff
> <<
>     \new Voice = "mel" { g'( f') g'( f') g'( f') g'( f') }
>     \new Lyrics \lyricsto "mel" { lov -- ing- -- kind -- ness }
> > >

I ran into this issue setting hymns which often have closely packed 
words.  This helper function is from my library of common utilities:

%%%%
\version "2.20.0"

forceHyphen = \lyricmode {
  \once \override LyricHyphen.minimum-distance = #2
}

{ b'8 8 8 8 }
\addlyrics { lov -- \forceHyphen ing -- kind -- ness }
%%%%

Note that the \override needs to occur before the syllable that precedes 
the hyphen.


-- Aaron Hill