On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 18:53:13 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-03-28 at 19:30 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> > Henry Law <n...@lawshouse.org> writes:
> >
> > > 3. On 28/03/16 13:05, Christoph Friedrich wrote:
> > >> refrain-empty = \lyricmode {
> > >> " " " " " " " " " " " "
> > >> }
> > >
> > > (Blush) no it isn't. I'd used underscores, which seemed to work.
> > > Yes, I know not to do that now.
> >
> > Why? I think that's what the underscores are actually for.
>
> There is a comment in the docs saying that underscores are for melisma
> and that \skip is good otherwise. This came up recently in the denemo
> list, I put in a command to take a selection of notes and create a \skip
> for the appropriate number of syllables, as the only thing I could
> suggest otherwise was melisma.
If underscores are used for skipping notes, there is one problem to
be aware of: the first underscore causes the previous syllable to be
treated as the start of a melisma, moving it from centre- to left-aligned.
Because I prefer _ to \skip1 on several counts †, I'm careful to
replace the first underscore (which is sufficient to break the melisma)
with something else. I used to write
invisibledot = \lyricmode { \once \override LyricText.font-size = #-19 "." }
but I now use
· = \markup \char ##x00A0
where that centred dot could be almost any convenient character.
† more typing; weird durations; putting extraneous letters and
digits amongst the lyrics, confusing the eye; the syntax highlighter
colouring them so they stand out even more.
Spaces, ie " ", are treated exactly like underscores, but are
error-prone and confuse the eye when several occur together.
Cheers,
David.
\version "2.18.2"
\header { tagline = ##f }
· = \markup \char ##x00A0
notes = { e'' d'' c'' b' a' g' f' e' e' f' g' a' b' c'' d'' e'' \bar "|." }
bad = \lyricmode { Here is one _ _ _ Here is
two " " " " " " Is it right? × }
good = \lyricmode { Here is one \skip1 \skip1 \skip1 Here is
two \· _ _ Is it right? √ }
\new Staff <<
\new Voice { \notes }
\addlyrics { \bad }
>>
\new Staff <<
\new Voice { \notes }
\addlyrics { \good }
>>
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