Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 2458 in lilypond: Remove small gaps between lyric syllables

[lilypond]

Comment #5 on issue 2458 by address@hidden: Remove small gaps between lyric  
syllables
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2458

Which is the point.  For R2L languages, you can't "phase out" a hyphen/gap  
gradually.  It either must be _clearly_ there (in which case you sing  
syllables left to right, while the syllables themselves are spelled right  
to left), or it must be clearly absent, in which case the whole word is  
written right to left, not just each individual syllable.

I don't have actual experience with notational practise in those  
languages.  For non-native singers, it is not uncommon to have a  
transliteration in Latin letters as well as the original text.  I think I  
remember that for purely Hebrew lyrics, people sometimes mirror the whole  
music to make it match the text direction.  That would be a different  
problem then.