Re: Disappearing hyphens (endashes) in lyrics

[Mats Bengtsson]

Christ van Willegen <cvwillegen <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 03:26, David Rogers <davidandrewrogers <at> gmail.com>
wrote:
> > This will alert the singer, at the time they need to know, "this is only
> > half of the word". In your proposal, if another voice (or the accompaniment)
> > has a lot of notes, the dash could end up "in the middle of nowhere", even
> > potentially on the next line.
> 
> It does not indicate 'this is half a word' in his case, but 'this is a
> parenthesis', so i would lessen the confusion (I think!).
> 
> Christ van Willegen


For completeness, I hope you know about http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=680,
even though it does not answer this specific question.

     /Mats