Re: exchange LyricHyphen with a "proper" hyphen

[Knut Petersen]

Hi Alexander!

> every now and then, I use a font for lyrics where the hyphen is quite different from Lilypond's LyricHyphen (in particular, sometimes it's slightly slanted). That combined with lyrics where a hyphen has to appear looks, well, ugly. (Recent example: a repetition of part of a word that has to be 
> written as { ro -- sen-, ro -- sen -- rot }.)
>
> I failed with [...]

> Did anyone ever successfully try to do that, or has an idea how to approach 
> such a tweak?

Yes, there is a solution in my local git repository. To activate the code you 
would include something like

     \override Lyrics.LyricText #'font-size = #+1.5

      \override Lyrics.LyricHyphen.use-markup = ##t
      \override Lyrics.LyricHyphen.text = "-"
      \override Lyrics.LyricHyphen #'font-size = #'1.5
      \override Lyrics.LyricHyphen #'font-name = "OffenbacherSchwab OT"
      \override Lyrics.LyricHyphen #'minimum-distance = #0.8

into \layout{}. It's on top of some other changes either not published or not 
accepted, but I could tear it out.

Of course, you would need to rebuild lilypond as the solution requires changes 
to the c++ sources.

cu,
 Knut