From: Marek Klein [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday 31 May 2012 13:08 To: Philip Thomas Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Lyrics hyphens - which glyph?
> Hello, >> 2012/5/31 Philip Thomas <[email protected]> >> Can anyone tell me which glyph is used for (automatically inserted) lyrics >> hyphens? They seem, to my eye, to be wider and lower-placed than ordinary >> text hyphens. I would like to add them manually in certain circumstances and >> I want them to match. > I found this in archive: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-02/msg00816.html > By Knut Petersen: > Well, lilypond never uses the dash glyph for hyphenation of lyrics. > Instead of a hyphen it puts a /draw_round_box into the output postscript > code. > I used "\override LyricHyphen #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print" to > tell lilypond to really generate a hyphen glyph instead of a centered > round_box, but that hyphen will be printed at the start of the preceding > syllable and thus needs a manual x-offset override if nobody knows > a better way to handle the problem;-( > HTH > Marek Thanks tons, Marek. Not as simple as I'd hoped, but it's good to have an answer -- and amazingly quickly, at that. So it will be a matter for experimentation and/or compromise, it seems. My apologies for failing to find the answer myself on the forum. All the best, Philip _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
