On Wed, 2017-01-18 at 19:10 +0100, Andreas Schneider wrote: > Am 18.01.2017 um 11:09 schrieb Richard Shann: > > On Tue, 2017-01-17 at 21:57 +0100, Andreas Schneider wrote: > >> Am 17.01.2017 um 14:59 schrieb Richard Shann: > >>> On Tue, 2017-01-17 at 13:52 +0000, Richard Shann wrote: > >>>>>>> Something else: Begin Melisma and End Melisma could be added to > >>>> the > >>>>>>> Notes/Rests menu, > >>> > >>> Well, perhaps in the Lyrics menu? > >> > >> Hmm, intuitively I would expect a command under Lyrics to affect the > >> text in the lyrics pane, while placing it under Notes/Rests suggests to [...] > > where it is essential to use that syntax?). We could always add it with > > a health warning, of course... > > Well, I think you *can* do everything by using underscores in the > lyrics, but it is not quick to look over a whole bunch of underscores > (say, 20).
IIRC that is what the "Skip syllables in selection" is for - you can just type the number of underscore you need, essentially. > Thus, it may be much more convenient to use the \melisma and > \melismaEnd directives, especially for ancient music. > > How do you adapt the Denemo display for slurs? Can you use the same > mechanism for the melisma directives? Not without introducing flakiness - slurs, ties and grace notes are all understood by Denemo - they are hard wired into the C code. Manual beaming etc are just bits of LilyPond syntax Denemo is instructed to output. Richard _______________________________________________ Denemo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/denemo-devel
