Re: How to force lyrics -- music connections on melismas?

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "maarten" == maartenwisse  <address@hidden> writes:

    maarten> The problem arises on 'hi __' and 'Do-', that is LilyPond
    maarten> places the 'Do-' on c8, but in the music, the 'Do-'
    maarten> should be placed on c2. I've found one method to force
    maarten> the melisma from bes4. to d4 by doing bes4.( c8 d e d4 ~
    maarten> )d4 (adding a beam). Then Lily understand that this is a
    maarten> melisma. But Renaissance music of course has no
    maarten> beams. How to enforce this without having the beam?

To get rid of the beams, all you have to do is say:

        \property Staff.autoBeaming = ##f 

which I do for almost all vocal music.

What you really meant say was that you were adding a slur.  You should
be able to make the slur invisible by saying something like:

        \property Voice.Slur \override #'transparent = ##t

but I just tested that and it doesn't work.  I'm sure there's
something similar that does, though.  

I didn't know how to do this when I started doing things like you're
doing, so I just put in enough blank syllables to get the non-blank
ones to line up, which is tedious and error-prone.  A blank syllable
is indicated by a single _.

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