Re: Lyric hyphens, preferred and otherwise

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Joel,

> It would be OK with me if this was displayed "two-part" or "two -
> part", but I want to avoid having this hyphen disappear: "twopart" is
> *not* good.

You can force adjacent lyrics to be a minimum distance apart — that should do 
it:

\version "2.16.2"

\layout {
  \context {
    \Lyrics
    \override LyricHyphen #'minimum-distance = #1
  }
}

\score {
 <<
   \relative c'' { c2 c }
   \addlyrics { two -- part }
  >>
}

Hope this helps!
Kieren.