Re: Lyric hyphen / glissando

[Valentin Villenave]

2008/6/18 Peter Johnson <address@hidden>:
>
> I'm looking for a way to create a customizable line from one lyric syllable
> to the next to indicate a modulation of the sound between the two syllables.
> This is really a lyric glissando, but \glissando cannot be applied to
> lyrics.  (Could \glissando be adapted?)

I don't think so...

> Using the lyric extender works, but produces only a baseline-aligned line
> and clumsy code.  (I posted about this last month.)

Yes indeed.

> Using the lyric hyphen by making the hyphen thick and very long produces a
> nicer solution, except when there's a line break: it continues on the new
> line OK, but should stop at the end of the old line (as does the lyric
> extender).  Is this a bug in the lyric hyphen?

I don't think it's a convenient way...

Does anyone know why the LyricHyphen grob doesn't have a
'dash-fraction property? It has a 'dash-period, but there's currently
no clean way to produce a continuous line. Could it be implemented
easily?


Cheers,
Valentin