Klaus Föhl <[email protected]> writes: > Olivier Biot wrote: >> If no hyphen is needed, then write "lecker". Otherwise write "lek-ker". > > A manually written hyphen as in lek-ker looks different to lek -- ker, > and then there is the alignment difference when writing lecker _ > >> On a side note, I didn't know this German hyphenation variant. > > This hyphenation rule has been withdrawn with the spelling reform. > Nowadays it is le -- cker (and the issue is gone). But then I feel if > one upgrades lyrics to the new standard some essence can be lost.
I don't go for the spelling reform, but independent from that I consider it a workable idea at least for classical singing to disregard grammatical hyphenation and instead stick the consonants to the next syllable. It avoids singers singing consonants for half a bar... -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
