Re: Having an actual hyphen in the lyrics?

[Aaron Hill]

On 2021-09-14 10:25 pm, Valentin Petzel wrote:
> if you use "on –" then you are treating this as one syllable. So this
> way Lilypond won't align the – under the tied note, if that is still
> intended.

Could you use a LyricHyphen and just lengthen it to look like an em 
dash?

%%%%
lyricEmDash = {
  \override LyricHyphen.minimum-distance = #5
  \override LyricHyphen.length = #2.5
}

\relative b' { \time 3/4 b4 b2 | b4 b2 \bar "|." }
\addlyrics { Lo -- \once \lyricEmDash rem -- ips -- um. }
%%%%

Just know that you need to do the appropriate \overrides before the 
LyricText preceding the LyricHyphen.


-- Aaron Hill