Dan Eble <[email protected]> writes: > In issue #2458 (Remove small gaps between lyric syllables), Janek says: >> >> I agree that sometimes a hyphen is necessary, "call-ed" being a good example. >> > > In a tight place this could be rendered "callèd” but it shouldn't be > "call-èd" when there is room for the hyphen.
"callèd" is such a crutch. I've seen it in something like 19th/20th century editions of poetry, but usually I'd expect singers to know what to do. I think that even in my Oxford Shakespeare, "called" is the standard spelling and in case a one-syllable version is needed, they spell "call'd" explicitly. And I'm skeptical that Shakespeare even bothered at all in the autograph. > It would be nice if there were a way to specify the alternatives and > let the computer decide which fits better. Alternatives could also be > useful in cases like "ev-ery" vs. "ev'ry”. — Dan Well, TeX has "discretionary" nodes for that sort of thing: you spell out the unbroken version and both broken parts explicitly. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
