Centered hyphens are entered as `-
-
' between syllables.
The hyphen will have variable length depending on the space between
the syllables and it will be centered between the syllables.
When a lyric is sung over many notes (this is called a melisma), this is
indicated with a horizontal line centered between a syllable and the
next one. Such a line is called an extender line, and it is entered as
__
.
Program reference: HyphenEvent (lilypond-internals) , ExtenderEvent (lilypond-internals) , LyricHyphen (lilypond-internals) , and LyricExtender (lilypond-internals)
This page is for LilyPond-2.5.11 (development-branch).