Re: lyrics dashes

[Werner LEMBERG]

> is there a standard way to detect the hyphen position?

I don't think so.  Contrary to the x-height of glyphs there is no
necessity normally to get this value.

> Or should we shove "-" down pango, and take the BBox of that?

This sounds like an excellent idea, since we not only get the right
position but the correct thickness too.

BTW, is it possible to use the font's dash glyph itself?  In some
fonts the dash shape looks a bit like a tilde, thus a home brewn dash
will look differently.


    Werner