Re: Lyric hyphens, preferred and otherwise

[Joel C. Salomon]

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Kieren MacMillan
<address@hidden> wrote:
> You can force adjacent lyrics to be a minimum distance apart — that should do 
> it:
<snip>
>     \override LyricHyphen #'minimum-distance = #1

Thank you. Since I don't need that everywhere, I turned that idea into
the code below.

--Joel

\version "2.16.2"

realHyphen =
#(define-music-function
     (parser location text)
     (ly:music?)
   #{
     \override LyricHyphen #'minimum-distance = #1
     #text
     \revert LyricHyphen #'minimum-distance
   #})

\score {
  <<
    \relative c'' { c4 c c c  }
    \addlyrics {
      \realHyphen { two -- part }
      two -- part
    }
  >>
}