Re: Disappearing hyphens (endashes) in lyrics

[Peter Olin]

Hi Jan-Peter!

Thanks for the tip.

Using an UTF dash indeed makes it show up in the lyrics - and so far that's good.

But then the trouble is that I don't want it to "consume" a note. It seems to be counted as a syllable.

I've been looking at the LyricHyphen and tried to experiment with overriding various values - but as it appears, the en-dash is not at all affected by this (but all the inter-word-hypens are).

I found something that looks a bit promising, 

skipFour = \repeat unfold 4 { \skip 8 }

But I'm a) not entirely clear about the numbers, and b) it only skips over the notes - the en-dash is still being counted as a syllable.

I need some more help or pointers here,  I'm getting in over my head in the nitty gritty.

/Peter

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 12:39, Jan-Peter Voigt <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello Peter,

to include the mdash sign in lilypond, it should appear as such in the (UTF8) encoded source. The double dash in lilypond evokes a hyphenation event to draw thin and short Lines between two syllables. If the emdash is not a syllable on its own, you might want to override hyphen properties.

HTH

Cheers,

Jan-Peter

Am 16.10.2011 um 12:13 schrieb Peter Olin <address@hidden>:

Hi all!

After a 20+ years hiatus from LaTeX use, I've again found reasons to wet my toes again.

I'm trying to typeset some verse with LilyPond - where the verse text includes hyphens (endashes, or possibly emdashes), but it's not as straightforward as I had hoped using LilyPond. Maybe someone can help.

The original verse text looks like this i LaTeX: 

"Må det väckta sinnet -- värdefullt, sublimt --"

and I want those endashes to appear in the lyrics below as well. But they don't. 

Can someone help me out with this?

\begin{lilypond}

% set the starting point to middle C

\relative c' { c c c c c c d d d d c r }

% The -- endash:es disappear. I would like to see them between the words "sinnet" and "värdefullt", as well as after "sublimt".

\addlyrics {Må det väck- ta sin- net -- vär- de- fullt sub- limt --  }  

\end{lilypond}

Kind regards,

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