On 2020-07-11 7:33 am, Fr. Samuel Springuel wrote:
Is there a tweak/override that can be applied which will force a
particular lyric hyphenEvent to always appear show its hyphen (moving
lyrics/notes around if needed)? I’m trying to deal with hyphenated
words (“loving-kindness” in this particular example) and the
hyphenEvent hyphen disappears under some circumstances if I use it
exclusively and manually inserting a text hyphen into one of the
syllables makes for an inconsistent double hyphen in others:
\version "2.20.0"
\new Staff
<<
\new Voice = "mel" { g' g' g' g' }
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "mel" { lov -- ing -- kind -- ness }
\new Staff
<<
\new Voice = "mel" { g'( f') g'( f') g'( f') g'( f') }
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "mel" { lov -- ing- -- kind -- ness }
I ran into this issue setting hymns which often have closely packed
words. This helper function is from my library of common utilities:
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\version "2.20.0"
forceHyphen = \lyricmode {
\once \override LyricHyphen.minimum-distance = #2
}
{ b'8 8 8 8 }
\addlyrics { lov -- \forceHyphen ing -- kind -- ness }
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Note that the \override needs to occur before the syllable that precedes
the hyphen.
-- Aaron Hill
