Thank you for your answer, David. It does make sense that way. Guess I'll just use "Te_- st" in this case to get rid of the extra hyphen.
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: David Wright <[email protected]> > Gesendet: Freitag, 24. Januar 2020 02:38 > An: [email protected] > Cc: 'lilypond-user' <[email protected]> > Betreff: Re: Odd Behaviour: \break after \repeat > > On Thu 23 Jan 2020 at 21:03:40 (+0100), [email protected] wrote: > > […] > > Test Test, Test, Te -- st } > > […] > > When I compile this, Lilypond outputs this weird double-hyphen as if > > it actually inserts an empty syllable where there should be none. > > > > Strangely, if I remove the "\break" after the "\repeat"-command, it > > outputs a single hyphen like it should. > > > > Is this a bug or what am I doing wrong? > > No bug, nothing wrong. You've hyphenated the lyrics "Te" and "st"; LP will > print enough hyphens to fill the space between the two syllables. If "Te" was > set to a melisma extending over several lines, LP would print lines of lyrics > consisting entirely of hyphens until it reached the syllable "st". > > Cheers, > David.
