Oh my this is getting way more involved than I expected! I’m re-thinking this in terms of the interruption dash Valentin mentioned. The formatting in old hymnals is sometimes really hard to parse out, and there are frequently mistakes, but I think that an interruption dash makes the most sense in the context of the lyrics. However, I already submitted the files, and if I need to change it I will, and if no one notices that’s okay too!
On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 2:02 AM Valentin Petzel <valen...@petzel.at> wrote: > Hello Carl, > > you mean this could be meant as an interruption dash: The fight is on – > the trumpet sound is ringing out... > > In this case I would expect the dash to be evenly spaced between on and > the. This could be achieved by using hyphen and overriding the stencil for > LyricsHyphen to a dash. May one should then use a m dash — to accentuate > the difference to a lyrics hyphen. > > Cheers, > Valentin > > 15.09.2021 20:36:40 Carl Sorensen <c_soren...@byu.edu>: > > > > > > > On 9/15/21, 11:20 AM, "lilypond-user on behalf of Valentin Petzel" > <lilypond-user-bounces+carl.d.sorensen=gmail....@gnu.org on behalf of > valen...@petzel.at> wrote: > > > > Hello Kira, > > > > The problem with this is that how well it works depends on the > horizontal > > spacing of the system. I’ve attached a short example of how you can > tell > > Lilypond to actually align the dash under the note. It involves > setting > > melismaBusyProperties to make Ties not be handles as melisma in the > one case, > > and manually skipping the tied note in the other stanzas using _ > > > > I actually don't think that the intent is to place the dash under the > tied note. I think the dash is punctuation in the lyrics, not a lyric > itself. > > > > That's why I think the "lyric --" solution is the right solution. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Carl >
