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On 2010-09-03 10:47, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
will font's hyphen be acceptable for lyrics as a _minimally_
acceptable.
I think the answer is yes. However, this is my feeling and not
Alexander Kobel writes:
> On 2010-09-03 10:50, Dmytro O. Redchuk wrote:
>> On Fri 03 Sep 2010, 10:09 David Kastrup wrote:
>>> 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 th
On 2010-09-03 10:50, Dmytro O. Redchuk wrote:
On Fri 03 Sep 2010, 10:09 David Kastrup wrote:
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
On Fri 03 Sep 2010, 10:47 Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > I'd say that minimally acceptable for lyrics is far too short for
> > text (and acceptable for text is too long for lyrics).
>
> I disagree. A hyphen is a hyphen is a hyphen, so to say. It must has
> the font's default hyphen length and must no
On Fri 03 Sep 2010, 10:09 David Kastrup wrote:
> "Dmytro O. Redchuk" 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
>> > I think that the font should provide the minimally acceptable
>> > hyphen.
>
> I'd say that minimally acceptable for lyrics is far too short for
> text (and acceptable for text is too long for lyrics).
I disagree. A hyphen is a hyphen is a hyphen, so to say. It must has
the font's default h
On 2010-09-03 10:09, David Kastrup wrote:
"Dmytro O. Redchuk" 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 accepta
"Dmytro O. Redchuk" 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 secon
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 accept
>> @ 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.
> If it gets shorter than that, no hyphen should be used at all.
Yep.
> Whether
Alexander Kobel writes:
> On 2010-09-02 18:03, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> You might actually be better off with overlaps (implemented as
>> dashing with slightly negative distance). Or with not using such a
>> font at all. Which is not likely anyway.
>
> True, true. Didn't think about this. I'
On 2010-09-02 18:03, David Kastrup wrote:
You could easily overlap multiple dash glyphs in order to arrive at
arbitrary lengths.
This won't work for fonts with uncommonly designed dashes, say one
slightly slanted to the top, like a / with less height.
So what?
Perhaps scale horizontally?
On Thu 02 Sep 2010, 17:52 Alexander Kobel wrote:
> On 2010-09-02 16:46, David Kastrup wrote:
> >"Dmytro O. Redchuk" 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 h
Alexander Kobel writes:
> On 2010-09-02 16:46, David Kastrup wrote:
>> "Dmytro O. Redchuk" writes:
>>
>>> On Thu 02 Sep 2010, 15:25 Alexander Kobel wrote:
Seriously: I still think it's not The Right Thing (tm) that
LyricHyphens don't use the dash glyph of the LyricText font, for the
>>
On 2010-09-02 16:46, David Kastrup wrote:
"Dmytro O. Redchuk" writes:
On Thu 02 Sep 2010, 15:25 Alexander Kobel wrote:
Seriously: I still think it's not The Right Thing (tm) that
LyricHyphens don't use the dash glyph of the LyricText font, for the
sake of easy reproduction of nice results. [
"Dmytro O. Redchuk" writes:
> On Thu 02 Sep 2010, 15:25 Alexander Kobel wrote:
>> Seriously: I still think it's not The Right Thing (tm) that
>> LyricHyphens don't use the dash glyph of the LyricText font, for the
>> sake of easy reproduction of nice results. (Read: You can't just
> LyricHyphen
Hi Alex,
> Arrgh! Don't you see that the lines are rounded with different corner sizes?
> Looks terrible at 6400% zoom, as bad as on my homemade A-1 borderless
> color-proofed metal-foil wallpaper prints! ;-)
Yes, but I foolishly thought I was the only obsessive-compulsive person on this
li
On Thu 02 Sep 2010, 15:25 Alexander Kobel wrote:
> Seriously: I still think it's not The Right Thing (tm) that
> LyricHyphens don't use the dash glyph of the LyricText font, for the
> sake of easy reproduction of nice results. (Read: You can't just
LyricHyphen may vary in length, i like this a lot
On 2010-09-02 15:09, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
Hi Robert,
As I sad, the problem is, that the usual dash (-) symbol is not really
looking like the hyphen. My question was, how to archieve it to display
a hyphen which looks very similar to the one generated by lilypond.
(Which seems to be rather a
Hi Robert,
> As I sad, the problem is, that the usual dash (-) symbol is not really
> looking like the hyphen. My question was, how to archieve it to display
> a hyphen which looks very similar to the one generated by lilypond.
> (Which seems to be rather a line than a character).
\version "2.13.
On Thu 02 Sep 2010, 20:01 Robert Clausecker wrote:
> As I sad, the problem is, that the usual dash (-) symbol is not really
> looking like the hyphen. My question was, how to archieve it to display
> a hyphen which looks very similar to the one generated by lilypond.
> (Which seems to be rather a l
[cross-posted from -user to bug-, see footnote]
On 2010-09-02 13:51, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
Wouldn't this be easier? [...]
<<
\relative { g'2 f }
\addlyrics { \override LyricText #'self-alignment-X = #0.75 "Pro - phe" --
tan }
Well, yes, but it doesn't really give the expected output
As I sad, the problem is, that the usual dash (-) symbol is not really
looking like the hyphen. My question was, how to archieve it to display
a hyphen which looks very similar to the one generated by lilypond.
(Which seems to be rather a line than a character).
Yours, Robert Clausecker
Am Do
Hi Robert:
Wouldn't this be easier?
\version "2.13.31"
<<
\relative { g'2 f }
\addlyrics { phe -- tan }
>>
<<
\relative { g'2 f }
\addlyrics { \override LyricText #'self-alignment-X = #0.75 "Pro - phe" --
tan }
>>
Hope this helps!
Kieren.
__
Thank you for your response.
I just wanted to know, whether there is an easier way to archieve this?
Yours, Robert Clausecker
Am Donnerstag, den 02.09.2010, 01:06 +0100 schrieb Neil Puttock:
> On 31 August 2010 13:42, Robert Clausecker wrote:
>
> > I want to write a small snippet for demo
On 31 August 2010 13:42, Robert Clausecker wrote:
> I want to write a small snippet for demonstration purposes, which
> contains lyrics. The problem is, that the first measure of the cited
> fragment is the second syllable of a word (Pro - phe - ten, the "Pro" is
> missing). In order to increase
Hi guys!
I want to write a small snippet for demonstration purposes, which
contains lyrics. The problem is, that the first measure of the cited
fragment is the second syllable of a word (Pro - phe - ten, the "Pro" is
missing). In order to increase the readability of this snippet, I wanted
to use a
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