Re: Having an actual hyphen in the lyrics?

[Valentin Petzel]

Hello Carl,

you mean this could be meant as an interruption dash: The fight is on – the 
trumpet sound is ringing out...

In this case I would expect the dash to be evenly spaced between on and the. 
This could be achieved by using hyphen and overriding the stencil for 
LyricsHyphen to a dash. May one should then use a m dash — to accentuate the 
difference to a lyrics hyphen.

Cheers,
Valentin

15.09.2021 20:36:40 Carl Sorensen <c_sorensen@byu.edu>:

> 
> 
> On 9/15/21, 11:20 AM, "lilypond-user on behalf of Valentin Petzel" 
> <lilypond-user-bounces+carl.d.sorensen=gmail.com@gnu.org on behalf of 
> valentin@petzel.at> wrote:
> 
>     Hello Kira,
>    
>     The problem with this is that how well it works depends on the horizontal
>     spacing of the system. I’ve attached a short example of how you can tell
>     Lilypond to actually align the dash under the note. It involves setting
>     melismaBusyProperties to make Ties not be handles as melisma in the one 
> case,
>     and manually skipping the tied note in the other stanzas using _
> 
> I actually don't think that the intent is to place the dash under the tied 
> note.  I think the dash is punctuation in the lyrics, not a lyric itself.
> 
> That's why I think the "lyric --" solution is the right solution.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Carl