Hello Peter, to include the mdash sign in lilypond, it should appear as such in the (UTF8) encoded source. The double dash in lilypond evokes a hyphenation event to draw thin and short Lines between two syllables. If the emdash is not a syllable on its own, you might want to override hyphen properties.
HTH Cheers, Jan-Peter Am 16.10.2011 um 12:13 schrieb Peter Olin <[email protected]>: > Hi all! > > After a 20+ years hiatus from LaTeX use, I've again found reasons to wet my > toes again. > > I'm trying to typeset some verse with LilyPond - where the verse text > includes hyphens (endashes, or possibly emdashes), but it's not as > straightforward as I had hoped using LilyPond. Maybe someone can help. > > The original verse text looks like this i LaTeX: > "Må det väckta sinnet -- värdefullt, sublimt --" > > and I want those endashes to appear in the lyrics below as well. But they > don't. > > Can someone help me out with this? > > \begin{lilypond} > % set the starting point to middle C > \relative c' { c c c c c c d d d d c r } > % The -- endash:es disappear. I would like to see them between the words > "sinnet" and "värdefullt", as well as after "sublimt". > > \addlyrics {Må det väck- ta sin- net -- vär- de- fullt sub- limt -- } > \end{lilypond} > > > > Kind regards, > > -- > Peter Olin > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
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