Re: Spacing in lily 1.3.118

[David Raleigh Arnold]

> I think the original poster was asking about how to not have to type
> in the hyphenations.

I think that the original poster wanted to automagically extract the
lyrics as a part in the usual manner, that is with verses numbered and
formatted as poetry in two or more columns at the end of the
composition. Of course the hyphenation should be stripped out as part of
the extraction. That saves typing the same stuff over again at the end,
since usually some or all of the verses are given as poetry at the end
of a song.

Since traditionally lines of poetry end with commas and verses end with
periods, this should not be difficult, in English anyway, as long as the
commas and periods are present in their proper places in the score.
While I'm sure someone will want dashes in his lyrics, that is certainly
very unusual. This seems to me to be perfectly reasonable and desirable
as a feature, but of course I'm not the guy that's doing it. :-)

If I am wrong, I imagine that the original poster is getting very
frustrated by now....

daveA