On Thu 02 Sep 2010, 17:52 Alexander Kobel wrote: > On 2010-09-02 16:46, David Kastrup wrote: > >"Dmytro O. Redchuk"<brownian....@gmail.com> writes: > >>Dash glyph will be the same length all the way. > > You have a point here. I personally don't like this feature too > much: if syllables are too close, I'd rather not have a hyphen there > at all. But I acknowledge your reasoning. I do like "no hyphen at all" approach for "tight" scores, but sometimes some editors require "hyphens everywhere" (and some our local books --- local equivalents of Read and Stone, let's say). It makes scores less elegant, but, anyway this possibility is essential, i'd say.
> Perhaps we could offer two choices: the "font dash" as well as the > current one. Unfurtunately I don't see an easy way to offer a > \hyphen-like markup command, which looks up the corresponding > thickness, raising etc. values to simulate the current hyphen; on > the other hand, what we have now needs manual tweaking for fonts > with unusual x-heights or so. I'll be glad to issue an issue ,) I'll wait for some "grace time", as usually, for more possible feedback, if you wouldn't mind this. > >You could easily overlap multiple dash glyphs in order to arrive at > >arbitrary lengths. No, i need them to be shorter very often .) -- Dmytro O. Redchuk Bug Squad _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user