Noeck <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have to write this word in the lyrics “seen-a”. This is how it’s
> written as text. It should be sung on two notes (like seen -- a). But in
> case the notes are close, it should remain “seen-a” and not “seena”.
>
> Is this issue [2463][] (which is a different usecase but might be used
> for this, too) or am I missing something? This should be a common
> usecase for all words containing hyphens, shouldn’t it?
> I had expected “seen - a” to work, but then the “-” takes up an extra
> note. (And yes, “seen- a” is too ugly and not width-adapting.)

Something like

"\\-" = \tweak minimum-distance #1 #(make-music 'HyphenEvent)
\new Lyrics \lyricmode { seen\-a }

perhaps?


-- 
David Kastrup

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