Re: Elision slur below entire syllable

[David Wright]

On Thu 12 Aug 2021 at 12:49:36 (+1000), Brent Annable wrote:
> Oh just one more thing: how do I get the "love" and the "liest" to join
> together as one word, without a space in between? At the moment I have:
> 
> \column {
>         \line {  "See, the love"\undertie"liest""blooming rose," }
>           "   Alleluia!"
>           "From the branch of Jesse grows,"
>           "   Alleluia!"
>         }
> 
> But that produces "love" and "liest" as two separate words.

You can use \concat { … }, a construction also useful for
concatenating strings with no space inserted in between.

BTW I wouldn't write
    "liest""blooming rose,"
but
    "liest" "blooming rose,"
instead. (Omitting whitespace between items will eventually trip you up.)

Cheers,
David.

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