Re: exchange LyricHyphen with a "proper" hyphen

[Alexander Kobel]

On 2016-12-07 23:59, Thomas Morley wrote:
> [...] So here a very first shot.
> For now I let display the new _and_ the colored default LyricHyphen.
> You'll see a drawback already: In tight situations the default gets
> shortened until it vanishs. This is not possible or at least not
> desirable for characters taken from a font, imho.
> Iirc this was already mentioned in the discussion the tracker links to.
> Maybe minimum-distance may help here, not tested though.

Yes, now that my memory is awake again, I seem to recall that I 
mentioned that few years ago already. At least shrinking should be 
undesirable for more than a very few percent of the width, similar to 
the microtype settings in the namesake LaTeX package.
Since I typically increase minimum-distance /and/ plan to revisit the 
magnetic-syllable-snap openlilylib snippet for this piece again, I hope 
that it won't be an issue.

Anyway, beautiful work, thanks a lot. I did not try it yet in real life, 
but will do so on the weekend and report back. In your test case, it 
works like a charm.


Cheers,
Alexander