Re: variant on "many syllables to one note"

2011-01-19 Thread Jan Warchoł
2011/1/19 Graham King > Thanks Jan, it works.  Much simpler than I expected - I had assumed that > melismaBusyProperties had some state that needed to be restored. Yes, it has - and fortunately that's what \unset does for us! :) Also, i've just found something that may be useful for you: \set ign

Re: variant on "many syllables to one note"

2011-01-19 Thread Graham King
Thanks Jan, it works. Much simpler than I expected - I had assumed that melismaBusyProperties had some state that needed to be restored. On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 14:00 +0100, Jan Warchoł wrote: > 2011/1/19 Graham King : > > Thanks Ted, that works. > > > > The one remaining problem is restoring the d

Re: variant on "many syllables to one note"

2011-01-19 Thread Graham King
Thanks Ted, that works. The one remaining problem is restoring the default behaviour of melimas afterwards: The "\once" trick doesn't work. I've also tried saving and restoring the default value of melismaBusyProperties in a temporary variable but, being ignorant of Scheme syntax, I just get

Re: variant on "many syllables to one note"

2011-01-18 Thread Ted Stanion
I'm pretty sure that adding "\set melismaBusyProperties = #'()" before your notes will do what you want. On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Graham King wrote: > In the early sixteenth century manuscript I'm working on, the scribe has > set the first three syllables of "angelorum" to a single note t

variant on "many syllables to one note"

2011-01-18 Thread Graham King
In the early sixteenth century manuscript I'm working on, the scribe has set the first three syllables of "angelorum" to a single note that I'm transcribing as a1. ~ a1. ~ a1 Is there a way, preferably compatible with \lyricmode, to tell lilypond to align the syllables under the respective semibre