Re: Horizontal alingment of lyrics hyphens?

[Simon Albrecht]

On 27.09.2016 14:45, Knut Petersen wrote:
> Am 25.09.2016 um 11:34 schrieb Simon Albrecht:
> > > Simon showed how to whiteout barlines, but Krzysztof also asked 
> > > about aligning hyphens in verses. Have a look
> > > at the attached pdf and compare Lilyponds output to the 
> > > hand-engraved original.
> >
> > Seems like a good feature request. Could you please write a concise 
> > description with the examples, preferably as images, and write to 
> > address@hidden
> > Best, Simon
>
> Any non-hackish solution would be anything but trivial, and I doubt 
> that there is enough interrest in that area.
> One example: The feature request to allow the use of the original 
> hyphen of the lyrics font is more than 6 years old ;-)

It’s always the same in LilyPond development: Everything is done by 
volunteers, and a feature gets implemented or a bug fixed, if someone 
has the time, skills and wants to do it. Nothing else. ‘Interest’ from 
others or even bounties play a negligible role. But it helps to have a 
tracker for the feature request, so the information isn’t lost in the 
archives.

> Advantages of this solution: All that could be done in c / c++ / 
> postscript, no need for scheme.
> As there is no need to understand and change the blackbox lilypond 
> it's much easier and faster
> to implement.

That’s an interesting statement. I’d’ve thought the c++ part was the 
‘blackbox’ part of LilyPond and Scheme the connection to the surface… 
But to each his own.

If you were to fix 
<https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/1255/>, that would 
certainly be very welcome. The design part could be discussed, and the 
Scheme part is quite simple, I think (just adding text-interface to 
LyricHyphen?). But I’m afraid you’d have to work yourself through some 
code and shed light into the ‘blackbox’ yourself…

Best, Simon