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Re: Skip should end lyric extender


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Skip should end lyric extender
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 12:00:46 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:

> 2017-08-26 20:13 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
>> Dan Eble <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> %% Semantically, the melisma ends at the skip.
>>> %% In the output, the extender continues to the next syllable.
> [...]
>> I've had other occasions where I had not been able to make an extender
>> end where I considered it appropriate.  Possibly an even bigger
>> head-scratcher is [...]
>> where no extender at all gets printed.
>>
>> The takeaway for this is that extenders at the current point of time
>> often don't work as expected and are pretty hard to make do something
>> useful.  I have a hard time figuring out what the current behavior is
>> supposed to be good for, or what the rules governing it actually are.
>
> Hi Dan, David,
>
> I tested both codes:
>
> <<
>   \context Voice = "V" { c''2 c''2 c''2 c''2 }
>   \context Lyrics \lyricsto "V" { Ah __ _ \skip 1 buh. }
>>>
>
> <<
>   \context Voice = "V" { c''2 c''2 c''2 c''2 }
>   \context Lyrics \lyricsto "V" { Ah __ _ __ \skip 1 buh. }
>>>
>
> with all versions starting with 2.12.3 up to current master.
> Allways the same output.
> At least it's not a recent introduced issue.

No, this pretty much always sucked.  It's one of those "I wonder how
anybody could ever have managed to use this actually" things.

-- 
David Kastrup



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