lyrics hyphens question

[Klaus Föhl]

Hello,

Recently I was talking with a person who also prepares music editions.
We were sitting there later in the night over a beer or two, and then 
to illustrate a point I first had to fetch a choral piece on paper
set in lilypond and then also to resort to the laptop.

On paper: lyrics syllables spacing within one word was causing irritation.
>From my old 2.12.3 I still run I know syllables do not have a magnetic
snap property. If they are the minimum distance apart, a hyphen appears.
An unclosed smaller than that gap without hyphen was deemed irritating.
Me suggesting the magnetic snap, my counterpart suggesting
as an alternative being able to force hyphens even in tight spacing.
Reading the 2.18.2 documentation, no word there 
neither of magnetic snapping nor of forced hyphenisation.

Entering music as text, my counterpart was not fully comfortable with that.
Probably the two aspects of entering music by name and not keyboard, 
and seeing somewhat cryptic letters instead of reading note heads on staff.
Readability in short (of course one can compile and view the PDF...).
Played the drum of being able to fully decipher the input/stored file,
version tracking, creating and modifying framework, but I felt 
maybe I should not overdo that sales pitch... 

Note to self/question: typesetting in size smaller 20 gave/gives artifacts
on my debian lenny/squeeze; and bar lines render too thick in some viewers.

Regards

Klaus