I know that most users won't want to learn Lilypond. It is just that the
options that they will need are much easier typed than prescribed with
buttons!
And at the moment we have a mismatch between what I would advise a new
user and what Lilypond and Denemo provides
As far as I can understand there are 3 requirements
*One Syllable to many notes: *technical term Melisma (plural Melismata
or Melismas) when one syllable is sung to more than one note
example: "I will always love you" Whitney Houston.
this can be typeset by
1 Manual Beaming
2 Adding a slur
3 adding, say, <space><dash> for each extra syllable which is OK if the
singer understands
4 Following the syllable to be extended by
<space><underscore><underscore><space>
followed by <dash><underscore> for every extra note to be included.
*/Denemo's Melismata ExtendWord does the first part of this!/*
This extends the underline from the printed syllable underneath all the
notes included as a continuous line
*One Syllable Per Note* (i.e. normal usage) Technically "Syllabic"
according to Wikipedia.
This can be done by
1 separating the syllables with spaces which is fine for monosyllabic
words but gives problems with words like onion or Putin
2 Lilypond accepts on<space><hyphen><hyphen><space>ion and prints as on
- ion with "on" under first note, "ion" under the following note and the
- between them.
*/Denemo's Melismata(!!) Split Word does this/*
*Many Syllables/Words per note
*used in chanted music, or music where the performer has freedom with
word stresses for which
1 "Word1 word2 word3 etc." is easiest, i.e. the quotes create a single
item and internal spaces are ignored.
Lilypond accepts also:
2 word1-word2, so hyphenated words are treated as one item (and a space
has to be included after the hyphen to separate them)
3 word1_word2_word3_etc which Lilypond typesets identically to the
quotes version above
4 word1~word2~word3~etc which Lilypond typesets as word1ˬword2ˬword3ˬetc
*/*Denemo's */**/Lyric Tie Print/**/ing /**/does 4, Non-Printing does 3/*
*/
/*
Personally I would use
Many notes for one syllable : Use Slur, or dashes for subsequent notes
as far as needed
(move to __ _ _ etc when needed)
One word/syllable per note: spaces separate words, syllables with either
dash added to each syllable in poly- syll- ab- ic words.
(move to -- when necessary)
Many words per note: use quotes.
Joe
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