Re: Lyrics hyphens - which glyph?

[Philip Thomas]

From: Marek Klein [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Thursday 31 May 2012 13:08
To: Philip Thomas
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Lyrics hyphens - which glyph?

> Hello,

>> 2012/5/31 Philip Thomas <address@hidden>
>> Can anyone tell me which glyph is used for (automatically inserted)
lyrics
>> hyphens? They seem, to my eye, to be wider and lower-placed than ordinary
>> text hyphens. I would like to add them manually in certain circumstances
and
>> I want them to match.

> I found this in archive:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-02/msg00816.html
> By Knut Petersen:

> Well, lilypond never uses the dash glyph for hyphenation of lyrics.
> Instead of a hyphen it puts a /draw_round_box into the output postscript
> code.

> I used "\override LyricHyphen #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print" to
> tell lilypond to really generate a hyphen glyph instead of a centered
> round_box, but that hyphen will be printed at the start of the preceding
> syllable and thus needs a manual x-offset override if nobody knows
> a better way to handle the problem;-(

> HTH
> Marek

Thanks tons, Marek.

Not as simple as I'd hoped, but it's good to have an answer -- and amazingly
quickly, at that. So it will be a matter for experimentation and/or
compromise, it seems. My apologies for failing to find the answer myself on
the forum.

All the best, Philip