Re: Having an actual hyphen in the lyrics?

[Kira Garvie]

Oh my this is getting way more involved than I expected! I’m re-thinking this in terms of the interruption dash Valentin mentioned. The formatting in old hymnals is sometimes really hard to parse out, and there are frequently mistakes, but I think that an interruption dash makes the most sense in the context of the lyrics. However, I already submitted the files, and if I need to change it I will, and if no one notices that’s okay too! 

On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 2:02 AM Valentin Petzel <valentin@petzel.at> wrote:

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>:

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> 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:
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>     Hello Kira,
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>     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 _
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> 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.
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> That's why I think the "lyric --" solution is the right solution.
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> Thanks,
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> Carl