Nowadays I only see/use the middle dot to cla⸱ri⸱fy syl⸱la⸱bles in lyr⸱ics.

Oh, nice! I've been using '-'s, but I'm going to switch.

There are different Unicode characters though so be careful. Some allow browsers to break at the dot, others are non-breaking so the browser will consider it a single word.

My specific use-case was breaking syllables in lyrics embedded in sheet music so that they line up with the associated notes on the staff above. (I write a lot of lead sheets).

I love that better! I was also just in Italy recently and you made me double take this tablet hanging on a canopy in one of the peregrination churches and they ARE interpuncts but for names only

I also prefer that and in fact I enable "visible whitespace" in every text editor that supports it, such as VS Code.

Why would you use visible noise for something that should be void

Why should it be void?

This is about the use of void in art, specifically the perception of beauty and care that comes from the artist taking time to focus the eye of the viewer onto particular zones.

It has nothing to do with text legibility.

This is still the standard in setting Ethiopic text