>> Lyric ties are essential for vocal music in Spanish because of the >> high percentage of the Spanish-language words that end in a vowel. >> Also, multiple-syllable words are much more common in Spanish, >> which makes notes that share more than one syllable a common case. > > Come to think of it, they are essential in Italian vocal music in > for similar reasons.
Not at all. While working for 20 years in theatres, I can only assure that 99,9% of all Italian vocal scores of classical operas *never* use a lyric tie. Werner _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
