Re: Issue 1255 - Fraktur hyphen glyph

[Shane Brandes]

Have you checked the font itself in a regular text editor to see if
the advance on the fraktur hyphen glyph is not somehow subtly
different from the average hyphen. If the bounding is off on that then
lilypond will look off too.

Shane

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Knut Petersen
<address@hidden> wrote:
> First of all: Thanks to all who contributed to lilypond.
>
> For most (not all!) antiqua fonts the code found in
> lily/lyric-hyphen.cc does produce reasonable results.
> But the horizontal line used as a hyphen is definitely
> unusable for fonts from the Fraktur family.
>
> The attached .ly and .png illustrate the problem:
> The second stanza line uses the correct glyph,
> but it´s necessary to override the x-offset of every
> single hyphen ... at least a better solution without
> changing the lilypond source code is unknown to me.
>
> I think my problem is an extreme case of lilypond
> issue 1255.
>
> Does anyone know an easier way to obtain proper
> fraktur hypens or is extending lily/lyric-hyphen.cc
> the only option?
>
> I built lilypond from a local git repository on an
> opensuse 12.1 based system.
>
> cu,
> knut
>
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