A good question. I am not familiar with Gregorian settings but in old mensural sheet music prints the lyrics are quite approximately placed, often with some abbr. signs to shorten the -um or -us of word endings. And they are mostly not devided into syllables, only at places where there is an especial wide melisma.
The first thought I had was: just keep it independently of the notes. There is the defnull solution in the vocal section of NR2, which has a comment though, stating: "conclusion: do not use defnull context" :-) Because it is so an important issue to me, this approach would it still make possible to use the same identifiers for old and new edition: in one \score-setup you make have them independent contexts, in the other you connect them as usual. But this is just a workaround, not a solution. It has been stated many times that the spacing is not really working for ancient: it is too much built on the assumption that a note takes space according to its duration and not only according to its real extent. Maybe Joe has an answer... Greetings till eyolf wrote: > > What would be the setting to let notes be spaced without regard for the > corresponding lyrics? E.g. to let two eighth notes be on the same distance > from each other whether the first note has "mum" or "if". I've played > around with removing engravers and setting properties, but I haven't > found anything that works. > > (And, yes: it's for the ancient chapter -- I'm not just wasting time here > :) > > Eyolf > > > -- > Quid me anxius sum? > > [ What? Me, worry? ] > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > ----- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * LilyPond-Hilfe auch auf deutsch im http://www.lilypondforum.de/index.php LilyPond-Forum . -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-make-note-spacing-disregard-lyrics-tp20680791p20681486.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user