Hi Brother Gabriel-Marie,

This is more a Frescobaldi query than lilypond. There’s a Frescobaldi (low 
traffic) group somewhere or other.

If you look at the Frescobaldi manual, it says it can use hyphenation 
dictionaries from word processors such as Open Office and so on. The 
Preferences -> Paths option allows you to specify a directory path for 
hyphenation dictionaries you can load. I am sure there are ways to edit those 
dictionaries.

As to American and British, there are actually no hard and fast rules. While 
they do differ, it’s not strict. American tends to go on sound and British on 
word structure, but it’s very fluid, and very personal.

I am not sure I would expect religious words like eucharistic (eucharist, 
maybe) to be in modern word processor dictionaries for hyphenation. You would 
normally expect to manually hyphenate such terms even in high end applications 
like InDesign. As for Mary, most programs won’t break a name, as a fairly 
important rule. Since they dictionaries are for word processors, they are not 
entirely suitable for lyrics in music, and so you will have to expect to 
manually adjust. The Frescobaldi manual even mentions that Amen will not be 
hyphenated by a word processor as ‘a — men’ looks bad - remember, this is about 
breaking words at the ends of lines in justified text, not splitting into 
syllables for singing.

Andrew



On 24 July 2015 at 03:02:29, Brother Gabriel-Marie ([email protected]) wrote:

Funny, the hyphenation tool does not know some words like:
Eucharistic
Mary
Crusader

Is there a way to edit the dictionary in Frescobaldi?

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