Vocal music and beaming

[Marco Gusy]

Hi, I would like to hear what you think about lilypond and beaming in vocal 
music. 
I'm quite sure it's common in traditional engraving to beam together only 
notes of a melisma. The rule is: two syllabes never are beamed together. I 
attach a picture as an example. This is Bach Magnificat, the "Ma -- -- -- -- 
" is beamed, but the "gni -- fi -- cat" isn't.
When I code choral music with lilypond i fell like doing the same work twice 
(manual beam, and enter lyrics), maybe lilypond should beam following the 
text.

Can you check some Bärenreiter score?

Thanks

Marco

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