Re: Hyphenating words in lyrics across long repeats and across multiple pitches

[Simon Albrecht]

On 21.07.2016 03:39, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> When I try to start a syllable that continues after the repeat, I have
> a problem.
>
> Lilypond complains loudly:
>      repeats.ly:24:38: warning: unterminated hyphen; removing
>
> Below an example that should read
>     Oh, tralalala! Tralalali!
>
> (Of course the hyphen would "kind of" work if I add "li!" at the end –
> it would pretend as if the word was "Tra -- li" and would place the
> hyphen to the wrong place.)
>
> What's the best recipe to fix such cases?

You have to revert to some kind of tricks; in this case, using "Tra -", 
which has the disadvantage of taking the hyphen from the font instead of 
Lily’s engraver tool, so it will probably look slightly different. See 
attached.

> Another problem are cases which I would intuitively write
>      tra -- _ -- la
>
> where the first syllable "tra" would be sung across two pitches.

Simple: just omit the second hyphen. Hyphens will be extended to span 
the whole distance until the next actual syllable comes. Same with 
extenders.

Best, Simon

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