#2638 Lyric Hyphens aren't placed equally far from neighbor syllables

[Anonymous]

Originally created by: *anonymous

Originally created by: janek.li...@gmail.com

This example is a bit artificial, but illustrates the problem well:

\version "2.15.39"
{ f'16 f' f' f' }
\addlyrics { W -- o -- pp -- p }

first hyphen is much closer to 'o' than to 'W'.  2nd and 3rd hyphens are closer to the syllable on the left.

This happens because syllables' are treated as if they had straight vertical edges (no "kerning" is applied).  Perhaps using skylines would solve this problem - see issue 2148.

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Originally posted by: dak@gnu.org

Exact shapes usually don't make for all too great optical corrections.  In this case, it might make sense to consult the kerning data for the regular hyphen character.  While it is not a given that the height of the "regular" hyphen matches that of the LilyPond-generated hyphens/extenders (unless one consults the shape info of the regular hyphen as well for deriving the vertical position of the LilyPond ones), it is likely better than nothing.  Assuming a font with reasonably good kerning data, of course.