Re: Color of lyric hyphen

[David Kastrup]

Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I would expect that with the following code the hyphen separating the
> lyrics syllables would be printed red:
>
> \version "2.19.57"
>
> \layout {
>   \context {
>     \Lyrics
>     \override LyricHyphen.color = #red
>     \override LyricText.color = #blue
>     \override LyricExtender.color = #magenta
>   }
> }
>
> music = {
>   c'2 c'2 ~ c'1
> }
>
> text = \lyricmode {
>   Hel -- lo __
> }
>
> <<
>   \new Staff \new Voice = "mel" \music
>   \new Lyrics \lyricsto "mel" \text
>>>
>
>
> But as you can see in the attached image it remains black, while the
> extender and the text itself are correctly colored.
>
> Did I misinterpret what LyricHyphen is or is this a bug?

This is a regression due to

commit 2dc76513c4edb8e18e6170069677eb0dd9b54209
Author: Knut Petersen <address@hidden>
Date:   Sat Mar 4 18:10:19 2017 +0000

    LyricHyphen whiteout
    
    Issue 5033

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David Kastrup