> On Feb 17, 2016, at 05:18 , Jean-Charles Malahieude <lily...@orange.fr> wrote: > > Le 14/02/2016 20:41, Dan Eble a écrit : >> Are there technical limitations that require typing a double hyphen >> to hyphenate lyrics? Why not just one? >> > > Technically, I don't know. But, in terms of coherence, I would leave it as it > is: > > one hyphen is treated as one syllable, just like one underscore "skips" one > (group of) note
But is it useful for a bare hyphen to be treated as a syllable? I don’t recall having seen any examples of that. > one double-hypen (which may output several dashes depending of the length of > a melisma) separates syllables of a same word, like a double-underscore draws > a line indicating the last syllable has to last over serveral notes. I think it should be reversed. It is more convenient to use the shorter symbol for the more common case. To specify a hard hyphen in a compound word, I would prefer something like this. Jean \hh Charles Mal - a - hieu - de (apologies if it's wrongly broken) I’m not advocating \hh especially, just using it as a placeholder. And if someone really wanted a hyphen character as a syllable, could they not use “-“? -- Dan _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
