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From: | Simon Albrecht |
Subject: | Re: hyphen syntax |
Date: | Wed, 17 Feb 2016 23:43:56 +0100 |
On 17.02.2016 23:22, Noeck wrote:
Or to come back to the quote I started with: IMHO a lyric hyphen is not advanced.
You should have come back to the entire quote: ‘And I think the double items suit the advanced functionality better (advanced in comparison to printing a hyphen character from a font).’ I didn’t mean ‘advanced’ in the sense of ‘only for advanced users’ or ‘rare’.
‘-’ prints a hyphen.‘--’ checks how much space is available, and inserts either nothing, a short hyphen, a full hyphen or multiple hyphens for longer stretches. If we were discussing ‘syl-la-ble’ instead of ‘syl -- la -- ble’ now, this would be a relevant advantage, since one would have to type one character instead of four. [Of course, this would force us to use quotes, if any literal hyphens were to occur inside a word.] But three characters versus four characters to type doesn’t seem enough of a difference to justify the change.
Best, Simon
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