Re: Add prefix to lyrics

[Alexander Kobel]

On 2010-09-03 10:09, David Kastrup wrote:
> "Dmytro O. Redchuk"<address@hidden>  writes:
> > On Fri 03 Sep 2010, 09:14 Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > > > > @ David: What I'm not quite sure about yet: Do you - in general -
> > > > > think the font glyph should or should not be used?
> > > > I think that the font should provide the minimally acceptable
> > > > hyphen.
> > > I second that.
> > I'd say that minimally acceptable for lyrics is far too short for text (and
> > acceptable for text is too long for lyrics).
>
> Text does not have variable length hyphens.  Dashes of various length
> carry different meanings in text: hyphen, range dashes, ellipsis.

Of which only the usual hyphen has a length still acceptable IMHO.  The 
others are too long.

> > So, the question is what is minimally acceptable for lyrics and ---
> > next (sub)question --- will font's hyphen be acceptable for lyrics as
> > a _minimally_ acceptable.
>
> Obviously (to me), different character slots are required for the
> extensible hyphens in lyrics, and a text hyphen.  A long lyric hyphen,
> for example, can't have the thickness of a normal text hyphen, or you
> get a heavy black bar across the page.

That's out of question, I guess.  The dashing for longer hyphenations 
(e.g. over melismata) is also used to distinguish between extenders and 
hyphens, and that's a good thing to have.

> You can't dash with a text
> hyphen perfectly either, because the ends of the hyphen are supposed to
> convey, well, ends of a hyphen and not an interruption.

Makes sense.  Might it be better (and reasonably easy to implement) to 
get the x-height from the LyricText font, adjust the LyricHyphen markup 
accordingly, and provide a \hyphen markup to use in syllables where the 
user needs a manually repeated hyphen?


Cheers,
Alexander