Melisma with manual syllable durations

2017-02-19 Thread David Sumbler
In 2 of the set of 6 songs I have (rather slowly) been setting, I want 2 sets of words: the original, and an English version.  In each of the other 4 songs there is just one set of words. After much experimentation and a lot of failures, I found a way of doing what I wanted, which is to use manual

Re: Melisma with manual syllable durations

2017-02-19 Thread David Kastrup
David Sumbler writes: > In 2 of the set of 6 songs I have (rather slowly) been setting, I want > 2 sets of words: the original, and an English version.  In each of the > other 4 songs there is just one set of words. > > After much experimentation and a lot of failures, I found a way of > doing wh

Re: Melisma with manual syllable durations

2017-02-19 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "David Sumbler" To: Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2017 2:49 PM Subject: Melisma with manual syllable durations In 2 of the set of 6 songs I have (rather slowly) been setting, I want 2 sets of words: the original, and an English version. In each of t

Re: Melisma with manual syllable durations

2017-02-19 Thread David Wright
On Sun 19 Feb 2017 at 14:49:57 (+), David Sumbler wrote: > In 2 of the set of 6 songs I have (rather slowly) been setting, I want > 2 sets of words: the original, and an English version.  In each of the > other 4 songs there is just one set of words. > > After much experimentation and a lot of

Re: Melisma with manual syllable durations

2017-02-20 Thread David Sumbler
On Sun, 2017-02-19 at 14:49 +, David Sumbler wrote: > In 2 of the set of 6 songs I have (rather slowly) been setting, I > want > 2 sets of words: the original, and an English version.  In each of > the > other 4 songs there is just one set of words. > > After much experimentation and a lot of

Re: Melisma with manual syllable durations

2017-02-20 Thread David Kastrup
David Sumbler writes: > On Sun, 2017-02-19 at 14:49 +, David Sumbler wrote: > > Thank you for the responses to my question. > > Unfortunately, I now realise that the question was not clearly > expressed.  It was not intended to be "is there a way to get melisma in > upper and lower voices", b

Re: Melisma with manual syllable durations

2017-02-20 Thread David Wright
On Mon 20 Feb 2017 at 18:37:15 (+), David Sumbler wrote: > On Sun, 2017-02-19 at 14:49 +, David Sumbler wrote: > > In 2 of the set of 6 songs I have (rather slowly) been setting, I > > want > > 2 sets of words: the original, and an English version.  In each of > > the > > other 4 songs ther

Re: Melisma with manual syllable durations

2017-02-22 Thread David Sumbler
On Mon, 2017-02-20 at 19:49 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > David Sumbler writes: > > > > > On Sun, 2017-02-19 at 14:49 +, David Sumbler wrote: > > > > Thank you for the responses to my question. > > > > Unfortunately, I now realise that the question was not clearly > > expressed.  It was no

Re: Melisma with manual syllable durations

2017-02-22 Thread David Wright
On Wed 22 Feb 2017 at 16:21:27 (+), David Sumbler wrote: > On Mon, 2017-02-20 at 19:49 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > > David Sumbler writes: > > > > > > > > On Sun, 2017-02-19 at 14:49 +, David Sumbler wrote: > > > > > > Thank you for the responses to my question. > > > > > > Unfortuna

Re: Melisma with manual syllable durations

2017-02-23 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 2017-02-22 17:21, David Sumbler wrote: > [...] > So I experimented. I find that, not only does it not matter which > voice or stave I name as "associatedVoice", but it does not even matter > whether such a voice exists! [...] Wrong. Compare the extenders in: \version "2.18.2" \paper { ragge

Re: Melisma with manual syllable durations

2017-02-23 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Kobel writes: > On 2017-02-22 17:21, David Sumbler wrote: >> [...] >> So I experimented. I find that, not only does it not matter which >> voice or stave I name as "associatedVoice", but it does not even matter >> whether such a voice exists! [...] > > Wrong. Compare the extenders in:

Re: Melisma with manual syllable durations

2017-02-23 Thread Trevor Daniels
David Kastrup wrote Thursday, February 23, 2017 2:29 PM > Alexander Kobel writes: > >> It might be surprising that a non-existing voice does not even produce >> a warning; but there *is* a (very sensible) difference. > [snip] > If searchForVoice is set (a context property) and this voice has