On Saturday 10 January 2004 02.31, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > {one4 \addlyricsOff two2 \addlyricsOn four4}
> > (where two2 means that "two" explicitely has the duration 1/2)
> > This notation would be easy to write and read. It also feels like a hack,
> > but it does reflect something like a hack in the notation. And problems
> > will arise if \addlyricsOn isn't aligned to a note in the melody, so this
> > could result in a warning and give undefined output.
>
> How about a switch that will turn of melisma following, eg.
>
>
> \lyrics { bla bla \autoMelismaOff bla bla \autoMelismaOn bla bla }
> \lyrics { bla bla ____ bla bla }
Yes, this notation is definitely a lot nicer than my suggestion. And it is
also sufficient for all reasonable usages.
And if someone for some perverse reason would like to print a single stanza
unaligned to a note, then this is still possible but a bit painful (put the
unaligned stanza between two sequencial \addlyrics).
Erik
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