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
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