Re: Obscure melisma fail

[Simon Albrecht]

Am 09.09.2015 um 18:12 schrieb David Kastrup:
> Simon Albrecht<address@hidden>  writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > in the following example Lily fails to recognise the melisma iff
> > – there is a second voice (comment it to test)
> > – the music is referenced by a variable and not directly inserted in
> > \score {} (sic!)
> >
> > %%%%%%%%%%%%
> > \version "2.19.25"
> >
> > alto = \relative {
> >    <<
> >      { d'2\melisma e4\melismaEnd cis }
> >      \new Voice { \voiceTwo s1 }
> >    >>
> > }
> >
> > altText = \lyricmode {
> >    side, sit
> > }
> >
> > \score {
> >    <<
> >      \new Staff \alto
> >      \addlyrics \altText
> >    >>
> > }
> >
> > % exactly the same, but without using a variable for the music
> > \score {
> >    <<
> >      \new Staff \relative {
> >        <<
> >          { d'2(\melisma e4)\melismaEnd cis }
> >          \new Voice { \voiceTwo s1 }
> >        >>
> >      }
> >      \addlyrics \altText
> >    >>
> > }
> > %%%%%%%%%%%%%
> Sigh.  It is _not_ exactly the same.  Your inline example uses slurs,
> your variable example doesn't.

Sigh (about myself). Sorry for posting a wrong version of the file, but 
removing the slurs doesn’t change the result in that the inline version 
recognises the melisma, the variable version doesn’t.
I’ve learned my lesson not to use \addlyrics.

Yours, Simon