Re: Lyrics hyphens - which glyph?

[Marek Klein]

Hello,

2012/5/31 Philip Thomas <address@hidden>

Can anyone tell me which glyph is used for (automatically inserted) lyrics
hyphens? They seem, to my eye, to be wider and lower-placed than ordinary
text hyphens. I would like to add them manually in certain circumstances and
I want them to match.

I found this in archive:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-02/msg00816.html
By Knut Petersen:

> Well, lilypond never uses the dash glyph for hyphenation of lyrics.
> Instead of a hyphen it puts a /draw_round_box into the output postscript
> code.
>
> I used "\override LyricHyphen #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print" to
> tell lilypond to really generate a hyphen glyph instead of a centered
> round_box, but that hyphen will be printed at the start of the preceding
> syllable and thus needs a manual x-offset override if nobody knows
> a better way to handle the problem;-(

HTH
Marek