Re: Add prefix to lyrics

[Dmytro O. Redchuk]

On Thu 02 Sep 2010, 17:52 Alexander Kobel wrote:
> On 2010-09-02 16:46, David Kastrup wrote:
> >"Dmytro O. Redchuk"<address@hidden>  writes:
> >>Dash glyph will be the same length all the way.
> 
> You have a point here.  I personally don't like this feature too
> much: if syllables are too close, I'd rather not have a hyphen there
> at all. But I acknowledge your reasoning.
I do like "no hyphen at all" approach for "tight" scores, but sometimes some
editors require "hyphens everywhere" (and some our local books --- local
equivalents of Read and Stone, let's say). It makes scores less elegant, but,
anyway this possibility is essential, i'd say.

> Perhaps we could offer two choices: the "font dash" as well as the
> current one.  Unfurtunately I don't see an easy way to offer a
> \hyphen-like markup command, which looks up the corresponding
> thickness, raising etc. values to simulate the current hyphen; on
> the other hand, what we have now needs manual tweaking for fonts
> with unusual x-heights or so.
I'll be glad to issue an issue ,)

I'll wait for some "grace time", as usually, for more possible feedback, if you
wouldn't mind this.

> >You could easily overlap multiple dash glyphs in order to arrive at
> >arbitrary lengths.
No, i need them to be shorter very often .)

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