Re: Vocal music and beaming

[Mats Bengtsson]

Marco Gusy wrote:

> Alle 13:09, giovedì 23 marzo 2006, Mats Bengtsson ha scritto:
>  
>
> > My point is that if you want LilyPond to break a beam whenever there is 
> > a new
> > syllable, then it has to know how long each syllable is. If you use 
> > \lyricsto, then
> > LilyPond figures out the duration of each syllable based on information 
> > in a
> > music voice
> >    
>
> But in 2.8 changelog there is "Melismata can be specified simply in the lyrics 
> now, eg."
> Look for this text in 
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.8/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.html
>
> As you can see there already are automatic music modifications given by lyrics 
> commands. So the lyrics context already can modify the score...
>
>  
Now I see what you have in mind. Still, using "_" to specify melismas
directly in the lyrics does not currently in any way influence the way
the notes are typeset and I suspect that there's quite much hacking involved
to make it work, but I leave that issue to Han-Wen.

  /Mats

> > are any melismas. If you want the beaming to be determined based on the 
> > syllables,
> > then LilyPond needs some other method to figure out the duration of each 
> > syllable.
> > How do you want that to work?
> >    
>
> The same like actual /lyricsto, with the addition of the beaming! It would be 
> great
>
> Marco
>
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