Re: exchange LyricHyphen with a "proper" hyphen

[Alexander Kobel]

Hi Knut,

thanks for looking into that. IIUC (and without looking into your code - 
is it on Github or otherwise publicly avaiable?), it seems that you 
essentially add a text-interface to LyricHyphen. That's what would have 
been my idea as well, if I were up to it.

Rebuilding is not a problem - I usually use a self-compiled version 
anyway, though I try to avoid relying on it too much. But this would be 
a change that you can do once and for all in a separate style file, and 
if you use a vanilla version, you can just resort to not include that part.

I'm not sure whether Harm's proof of concept also involved 
pre-compile-time modifications. If not, that would be an ever better 
option for my taste. Otherwise, I'll come back to you... ;-) Thanks!


Cheers,
Alexander


On 2016-12-07 11:37, Knut Petersen wrote:
> 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