Carl Sorensen <[email protected]> writes: > On 1/14/20, 6:58 AM, "Arle Lommel" <[email protected]> wrote: > > So schrieb David: > > > Either way is acting as it should. > > > > The manual has an index entry "beam, with lyrics" for the chapter > > "Setting automatic beam behavior" but there is no usable reference > > whatsoever in that chapter. I actually find rather little elsewhere > > either, there are mostly just some allusions to manual beaming and > > lyrics that don't make it into a definitive statement about LilyPond's > > behavior rather than a general typesetting practice. > > > > It's sort of an "everyone knows this except the manual" situation > > apparently. > > > Thanks for the explanation, which makes sense. Where should I > suggest that this be made more prominent in the documentation? It > think it ought to be mentioned in the section on Lyrics where slurs > are discussed so that both options are evident to people like me, who > dip in and out of Lilypond on a semi-regular basis but aren’t quite up > on all the details. > > Well, in NR 2.1.1, under Multiple notes to one syllable > (http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-vocal-music#multiple-notes-to-one-syllable), > we read of five different ways to accomplish this. One of them is > manual beaming: > > "Notes are considered a melisma if they are manually beamed, providing > automatic beaming is switched off. See Setting automatic beam > behavior" > > There is also a subsection that describes how melismaBusyProperties > can be tuned to control how melismata are decided. > > Perhaps this is a place that more clarity could be added, but > personally, this has worked well for me understanding this issue. I > don't really see a need to add more here. > > Maybe we need to improve the indexing.
And definitely the cross-referencing. If there is a single sentence summarising the behavior with a link to the extensive explanation in most locations where one would expect to see it, that should help a lot. Particularly when there already is a handwaving statement of the "it was customary for syllables to match manually placed beams" kind. -- David Kastrup
