Re: hyphens and spacing

[Michael Lauer]

Charles Gran <sonance <at> campdeadly.com> writes:

> 
> I'm copying a choral piece and am finding the spacing too tight, I 
> want to open it up and also have all hyphens in the lyrics print.  
> Can anyone help or direct me to the appropriate sections in docs?
> 
> I did find:
> \override Lyrics.LyricSpace #'minimum-distance = #5.0
> in
> 7.3.8 Spacing lyrics
> but wanted to check if there were other methods (I'm especially 
> intereted in the hyphen issue).
> 

You also need to override LyricHyphen #'minimum-distance.  
To get the hyphens to print you need that to be greater than
LyricHyphen #'minimum-length, which defaults to 0.3.  
See section 7.3.3, Hyphens and Extenders.

FWIW I use

\context
{
    \Lyrics
    \override LyricHyphen #'minimum-distance = #0.5
    \override LyricSpace #'minimum-distance = #0.5
}

You may want bigger distances.

Cheers,
Michael