Re: Mandatory dashes in lyrics

[Lukas-Fabian Moser]

Hi Aaron,

Am 11.10.21 um 04:23 schrieb Aaron Hill:
> You can force a LyricHyphen to appear:
>
> %%%%
> forceHyphen = \lyricmode {
>   \once \override LyricHyphen.minimum-distance = #1.5
> }
>
> music = \fixed c' {
>   \key f \major \time 3/4
>   a2 4 | a4( g) a | c'4( bes) a | a4 g r
> }
>
> { \music } \addlyrics {
>   And the white -- robed mar -- tyrs fol -- low,
> }
> { \music } \addlyrics {
>   And the \forceHyphen white -- robed mar -- tyrs fol -- low,
> }
> %%%%
>
> Note that since the -- must appear directly after the text, you will 
> need to apply this override before the text.

Thanks! I modified this a bit:

forceHyphen = {
  \once\override LyricHyphen.length = 1
  \once\override LyricHyphen.minimum-distance = 1
  \override LyricHyphen.after-line-breaking = ##t
}

which for my use case seemed to look more natural and also caters for 
the case of a line break at the hyphen.

Lukas