Re: hyphen syntax

[Simon Albrecht]

On 17.02.2016 23:22, Noeck wrote:
> Or to come
> back to the quote I started with: IMHO a lyric hyphen is not advanced.

You should have come back to the entire quote: ‘And I think the double 
items suit the advanced functionality better (advanced in comparison to 
printing a hyphen character from a font).’ I didn’t mean ‘advanced’ in 
the sense of ‘only for advanced users’ or ‘rare’.
‘-’ prints a hyphen.
‘--’ checks how much space is available, and inserts either nothing, a 
short hyphen, a full hyphen or multiple hyphens for longer stretches.
If we were discussing ‘syl-la-ble’ instead of ‘syl -- la -- ble’ now, 
this would be a relevant advantage, since one would have to type one 
character instead of four. [Of course, this would force us to use 
quotes, if any literal hyphens were to occur inside a word.]
But three characters versus four characters to type doesn’t seem enough 
of a difference to justify the change.

Best, Simon