Re: Discussing typographical standards

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Shann" <address@hidden>
To: "Alexander Kobel" <address@hidden>
Cc: "lilypond user list" <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: Discussing typographical standards


> On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 09:14 +0000, Richard Shann wrote:
> > On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 09:07 +0100, Alexander Kobel wrote:
> > > On 03/25/2014 01:10 AM, Simon Albrecht wrote:
> > > > The following is completely off-topic, but I’d like to share some
> > > > observations I often make and thoughts I have and ask for your
> > opinion:
> > >
> > > Hi Simon,
> [...]
> > >
> > > Ugh.  Ugly, but Denemo's fault.
> >
> > the Denemo user's fault (me, in this case), it would seem I should
> > have
> > written -- instead of - attached ... ignorance (sigh!).
>
> I did a search and replace "- " with " -- " and uploaded a new version
>
> http://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/278632
>
> I left the long melismata as it is in the original print, because I
> don't know what else to do with it. And I took the opportunity to tweak
> the beaming and the line break at half-bar. I thought it was worth
> tweaking, as this is out there as an example of LilyPond typesetting. It
> is now LilyPond 2.18
>
> Richard


If you were setting this now, you would use a lyric extender.

http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-vocal-music#extenders-and-hyphens

Older typesetting often uses multiple dots (periods) for this: I always 
replace them with the horizontal line.

--
Phil Holmes