On 17.02.2016 15:58, David Kastrup wrote:
Dan Eble<d...@faithful.be> writes:
>>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.
It is rather common for skipping syllables in multiple stanzas since an
isolated - is equivalent to " ".
It’s an isolated _ (underscore) you mean. A dash is indeed treated as a
syllable.
I think _if_ we wanted to use - instead of --, we’d have to do the same
kind of change for lyric extenders, else it would be inconsistent. And I
think the double items suit the advanced functionality better (advanced
in comparison to printing a hyphen character from a font).
Best, Simon
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