On Fri 03 Sep 2010, 10:09 David Kastrup wrote: > "Dmytro O. Redchuk" <brownian....@gmail.com> writes: > > 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. Yes, i knew that: -, –, — (or -, -- and --- in TeX?). And the only is the hyphen, i believe: the shortest one .)
> > 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. I feel like i agree. Actually, what i would like to mention: using a font's hyphen as a "minimally acceptable hyphen" for lyrics is, probably, bad idea (i can imagine a sutiation when i need to refuse to use particular font _only_ because it's hyphen is too long for "minimally acceptable" lyrics hyphen "for current project", let's say). (ergh.. sorry for my english, can't express freely, stupid me) -- Dmytro O. Redchuk Bug Squad _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
