If anyone is interested, tlm over at autohotkey wrote a
quickie hypenation script:
http://ahkscript.org/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=9012&p=50024#p50024
It seems to like Mary and the Eucharist more than Frescobaldi
From this string:
Eucharistic Crusaders they love Mary
you get:
Eu-cha-ris-tic Cru-sad-ers they love Mar-y
The syllables are correct, but obviously the spacing isn't,
but if anyone is interested, I can adjust the autohotkey
script to provide syllable separation for Lilypond (it will
still be an autohotkey script though, but you can run your
strings through it and just paste into your lilypond script).
On 7/23/2015 9:11 PM, Andrew Bernard wrote:
Hi Brother Gabriel-Marie,
This is more a Frescobaldi query than lilypond. There’s a
Frescobaldi (low traffic) group somewhere or other.
If you look at the Frescobaldi manual, it says it can use
hyphenation dictionaries from word processors such as Open
Office and so on. The Preferences -> Paths option allows
you to specify a directory path for hyphenation
dictionaries you can load. I am sure there are ways to
edit those dictionaries.
As to American and British, there are actually no hard and
fast rules. While they do differ, it’s not strict.
American tends to go on sound and British on word
structure, but it’s very fluid, and very personal.
I am not sure I would expect religious words like
eucharistic (eucharist, maybe) to be in modern word
processor dictionaries for hyphenation. You would normally
expect to manually hyphenate such terms even in high end
applications like InDesign. As for Mary, most programs
won’t break a name, as a fairly important rule. Since they
dictionaries are for word processors, they are not
entirely suitable for lyrics in music, and so you will
have to expect to manually adjust. The Frescobaldi manual
even mentions that Amen will not be hyphenated by a word
processor as ‘a — men’ looks bad - remember, this is about
breaking words at the ends of lines in justified text, not
splitting into syllables for singing.
Andrew
On 24 July 2015 at 03:02:29, Brother Gabriel-Marie
(brgabr...@sspx.org <mailto:brgabr...@sspx.org>) wrote:
Funny, the hyphenation tool does not know some words like:
* Eucharistic
* Mary
* Crusader
Is there a way to edit the dictionary in Frescobaldi?
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