Feature Request: \addlyrics issues

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Thanks for all the suggestions. There are a couple of good ones there,
and a couple of puzzles (I've been thinking about the different stanza
thing too.)  But they need some thought before they can be
implemented. I'll get back to you

address@hidden writes:
> 
> 2. Another suggestion I have, is a major change in the lyrics durations in 
> \addlyrics: Let \addlyrics accept only those durations that are multiples of 
> quarters (and give warnings for all other durations), and then assign each 
> quarter in the lyrics to one syllable in the melody. I.e., "\addlyrics {c2 d 
> e f} {one4 two2 __ four4}" would let "two" span over the d and e. The 
> advantage would be in cases like this:

> ...

> to paper (you'd have to do something like removing the engraver of that 
> LyricsVoice). My wild suggestion is to change the syntax, so that this 
> wouldn't be needed (as far as I can see, this would simplify some situations, 
> and I can not find any situation that it complicates).

You are quite right; the durations with \addlyrics are arbitrary. We
could use that information for special purposes.

> i) I can remember that there once existed a property automaticMelismata 
> somewhere. Now I can not find that property (it's not in the manual, and grep 
> -ri melism /usr/share/doc/lilypond/ finds nothing relevant).
> Btw, in regression/lyric-combine.ly, this is referred to as 
> automaticMelismas, 
> not -ta as I remember. Is this a typo?

I removed it when I realized that automaticMelismata is
superfluous. You can use melismaBusyProperties. Set it to '() for no
melismata.

> ii) I think it should be made more visible in the documentation that | can be 
> used in lyrics as well. I was looking for a way to avoid getting lyrics out 

I added a note in the Bar check section. I also found  a smallish
error in our latest test piece, after adding |  :-) 
 

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