Re: Add prefix to lyrics

[Alexander Kobel]

On 2010-09-02 16:46, David Kastrup wrote:
> "Dmytro O. Redchuk"<address@hidden>  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.  [...]
> > LyricHyphen may vary in length, i like this a lot. It's a nice thing.
> >
> > 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.
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.

> 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.  Perhaps scale 
horizontally?


Cheers,
Alexander