Re: Positioning lyrics properly with beaming?

[William Rehwinkel]

Hey Kevin,

I found that the command to disable all logic for finding melismas (manual beams when \autoBeamOff, slurs, etc.) is melismaBusyProperties = #'() . Refer to the attached example which sets it in a \context block. In the words macro I entered the lyrics in a few different ways, depending on which way you would most prefer.

I found it on this page: https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.21/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-vocal-music (ctrl-f melismaBusyProperties)

Let me know if this is what you intended or if I am missing something.

-William

On 7/21/22 13:37, Kevin Cole wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm transcribing a score from a printed copy and the score has a lot
> of beamed 8th, dotted 8th, and 16th notes in it.  But the lyrics
> resist being lined up regardless of how I use a single underscore
> without spaces, with spaces, double dashes, etc.
> I looked at https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/learning/aligning-lyrics-to-a-melody
> but I'm still missing something.
>
> A small example below.  The "Ohhh" should extend over the dotted half
> note and the 8th note that follows, and "The" should appear under the
> 16th note. It behaves correctly if I remove the beaming, but, as
> mentioned above, there's a lot of it and I'm trying (once again) to
> stay true to the stuff I'm transcribing. (Actually, the original score
> has "Ohhh - hhh, The" with the Ohhh" under the dotted half note and
> the "hhh" under the dotted 8th note, which, I guess would be even
> better -- and truer to the source material.)
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%
> \version "2.22.1"
> \language "english"
>
> global = {
>   \time 4/4
>   \key c \major
> }
>
> melody = \relative c' {
>   \global
>   <g~ c~>2. <g c>8.[ e'16]                | %  1
> }
>
> words = \lyricmode {
>   Ohhh, The                               | %  1
> }
>
> \score {
>   <<
>     \new Voice = "mel" { \melody }
>     \new Lyrics \lyricsto mel \words
>   >>
>   \layout { \autoBeamOff }
> }
> %%%%%%%%%%%
>
>     
-- 
William Rehwinkel

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https://williamrehwinkel.net

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