Re: Removing lyric hyphens

[David Wright]

On Wed 24 Jul 2019 at 15:54:54 (-0400), Benjamin Bloomfield wrote:
> I've been trying to totally get rid of the space where a lyric hyphen might
> go, in cases where that space is already very small, but I have not been
> able to figure it out.
> 
> I have noticed that if I add the lines
> 
> > \override LyricHyphen.minimum-length = #0
> 
> \override LyricHyphen.padding = #0
> 
> in the Lyrics context, then the spacing between the lyrics stays the same,
> but it is more clear where the spaces are that I don't want because they
> show as just little black dots.
> 
> Is there a way to get rid of these spaces instead of having them still
> present as empty space?  I want the syllables to be as close to each other
> as if they were a single syllable.

Is there any reason against setting one note for each *word* that's
entirely on the reciting note, rather than each and every syllable?
Then the remaining hyphens are just the significant ones.

Cheers,
David.