Re: When is "-" required in articulations?

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Donnerstag, 22. Mai 2008 schrieb Valentin Villenave:
> "Markup expressions may also be enclosed in double quotes "...". Such
> expressions are treated as text strings and may not contain nested
> expressions or commands. Therefore, braces are generally prefered to
> double quotes."

Actually, these two are not the same, in particular the spacing is very 
different. I ran into this problem just a few days ago: With {...}, when 
lilypond decides on the space between the words, the spaces between the words 
was a too tight, so it was hard to tell words apart and read the text. 
With "...", the width of the spaces seems to be taken from the font and the 
text is much more readable...

As an example, look at the attached test case, where the second title line 
(using {...} for the markup) is way too tighly spaced and thus hard to read. 
I had an even worse case, but I can't remember  or reproduce now.

Cheers,
Reinhold
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