Re: Manual beams confuse lyrics positioning when autoBeam is off

[Neil Puttock]

On 12 July 2011 21:08, BognárBálint <address@hidden> wrote:

> When autoBeam is off and I manually place a beam on two different 1/8 notes
> (eg. a 'c' and a 'd'), only one syllable of lyrics is positioned under these
> two notes (eg. if the lyrics is "ly -- rics"  (or "ly rics"), "ly" is
> positioned under the note 'c' and there is nothing under the note 'd').

This is correct behaviour: manual beams signal melismata, so a lyric
syllable will last for the length of a beam and be left-aligned.

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-vocal-music#multiple-notes-to-one-syllable

Cheers,
Neil