Re: lyrics: keep unterminated hyphen on dal segno?

[Corinna Maass]

On Monday, February 06, 2012 02:44:18 AM -Eluze wrote:
> Bugzilla from address@hidden wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am typesetting a vocal piece with a dal segno al fine part, where the
> > typeset
> > music ends in the middle of a coloratura syllable before looping back to
> > the
> > first segno.
> > This means the lyrics line ends with a dangling hyphen, which lilypond
> > removes
> > automatically.
> > Is there a workaround to restore the hyphen?
> 
> a lousy trick is to take out the last note of the melisma
> 
>   g g r4 g,32 \melisma a b c d e f \melismaEnd g
> 
> and add an empty \markup to it:
> 
>   Un -- \markup \null
> 
> hth
> Eluze
 
Lousy, but functional :) I'd  need \autoBeamOn for it to work, but on a 
melisma that's perfectly reasonable.

Thanks!
Corinna