Noeck <noeck.marb...@gmx.de> writes: > Hi Simon, > >> You should have come back to the entire quote: ‘And I think the double >> items suit the advanced functionality better (advanced in comparison to >> printing a hyphen character from a font).’ I didn’t mean ‘advanced’ in >> the sense of ‘only for advanced users’ or ‘rare’. > > I know. I'm sorry to misuse the quote a bit. Your sentence just made me > want to write what I was thinking before – even though it did not fully > fit to your statement. > >> But three characters versus four characters to type doesn’t seem enough >> of a difference to justify the change. > > That might well be true. I am undecided myself. I think I like the > single hyphen (syl - la - ble) still ;)
I think the main problem we should aim to solve is that the occasional user just does not remember what's what. __ is a lyric extender, -- is a lyric hyphen, _ is a non-syllable-separating space, - is a normal dash, ~ is an undertie. All of the single-character entities will become part of the syllable they are in (even if they are alone), the double characters however augment the previous syllable. That's sort of systematic, except that the system is not explained anywhere. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel