"Dmytro O. Redchuk" <brownian....@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri 03 Sep 2010, 09:14 Werner LEMBERG wrote: >> >> @ David: What I'm not quite sure about yet: Do you - in general - >> >> think the font glyph should or should not be used? >> > I think that the font should provide the minimally acceptable >> > hyphen. >> I second that. > I'd say that minimally acceptable for lyrics is far too short for text (and > acceptable for text is too long for lyrics).
Text does not have variable length hyphens. Dashes of various length carry different meanings in text: hyphen, range dashes, ellipsis. > So, the question is what is minimally acceptable for lyrics and --- > next (sub)question --- will font's hyphen be acceptable for lyrics as > a _minimally_ acceptable. Obviously (to me), different character slots are required for the extensible hyphens in lyrics, and a text hyphen. A long lyric hyphen, for example, can't have the thickness of a normal text hyphen, or you get a heavy black bar across the page. You can't dash with a text hyphen perfectly either, because the ends of the hyphen are supposed to convey, well, ends of a hyphen and not an interruption. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user