Re: Skipping syllables / LyricExtender

2024-01-04 Thread Michael Käppler via bug-lilypond
Thanks a lot! So this is clearly a documentation issue. Am 04.01.2024 um 10:34 schrieb Paul Hodges: This came up in the user list just a month ago, when I asked about the use of _ instead of \skip1 causing a lyric to be misaligned because it started a melisma.  By chance I found the only (?)

Re: Skipping syllables / LyricExtender

2024-01-04 Thread Paul Hodges
This came up in the user list just a month ago, when I asked about the use of _ instead of \skip1 causing a lyric to be misaligned because it started a melisma.  By chance I found the only (?) documented reference to "", which solved my problem with a less ugly notation than \skip1!  It seems

Re: Skipping syllables / LyricExtender

2024-01-04 Thread Michael Käppler via bug-lilypond
Thanks, Paul, but is this mentioned somewhere in the docs? AFAICS, they recommend using \skip everywhere for skipping notes. "" is shorter and more logical, since, unlike `\skip (dur)` it does not request the duration argument, which is ignored in Lyrics, anyway. Michael Am 04.01.2024 um 00:12