Thanks for your patience. No not at all. I'm not at all trying to replace the inter-syllable hyphen with emdash.
My lyrics comes from this verse: Må det väckta sinnet – värdefullt, sublimt – > vakna hos dem där det ännu ej har väckts > aldrig falna där det redan vaknat har > utan ständigt växa i all evig tid. The en-dashes are *between words* in the verse (see the first line) As described in the wikipedia article on Dash: Like em dashes, en dashes can be used instead of colons, or pairs of commas > that mark off a nested clause or phrase. They can also be used around > parenthetical expressions – such as this one – in place of the em dashes > preferred by some publishers, particularly where short columns are used, > since em dashes can look awkward at the end of a line. See En dash versus > em dash <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#En_dash_versus_em_dash>, below. > In these situations, en dashes must have a single space on each side. So, I want to keep the en-dashes in the typeset lyrics, but I do not want them to be matched to any notes, but rather have them occupy the space *between the words*, and *under the space* between the notes. /Peter On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 22:42, Kieren MacMillan < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Are you simply trying to replace Lilypond's inter-syllable hyphen with an > emdash? If so, just override it directly: > > \version "2.15.14" > \paper { ragged-right = ##f } > MD = { > \once \override LyricHyphen #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print > \once \override LyricHyphen #'text = "—" > \once \override LyricHyphen #'X-offset = #4.5 > } > theNotes = \relative c' { c4 c c c c c c c } > theWords = \lyricmode { Nor -- mal \MD re -- placed nor -- mal nor -- mal } > \score { > << > \new Staff \theNotes > \addlyrics \theWords > >> > } > > Anyway, this should give you some ideas and point you in the right > direction. > (n.b., There's probably a more elegant way than the manual X-offset, but I > don't have time to work it out right now.) > > Hope this helps! > Kieren. -- Peter Olin
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