Hi Brent,
Am 03.07.21 um 09:40 schrieb Brent Annable:
Hi everybody,
I'm preparing some choral motets, and so far I have used slurs to tell
the lyric engine where to put the melismata. I am finding the page a
little too cluttered, so bow I want to see what the score would look
like without the slurs in it.
When I use \hide Slur, they disappear but the layout and spacing is
the same; obviously the engraver still creates them, they just aren't
shown. When I remove the engraver, the lyric engine no longer
recognises them so the syllables all end up in the wrong place.
Is there a way to tell Lilypond to use the slur indications to
position the lyrics, but to tell the slur engraver not to generate them?
\hide'ing is too weak (it just makes the slurs transparent), \remove'ing
the Slur_engraver is too much (the slurs cease to exist). \omit'ting is
the right thing in between: The stencil is removed, so the slur won't be
printed and won't take up space, but the lyrics engine still "sees" the
slur.
So:
\version "2.22.1"
\layout {
\omit Slur
}
\relative {
g'4.( f8 e d c d)
e4 c
}
\addlyrics {
Me -- lis -- ma
}
Another, somewhat brutal alternative would be to re-define the meaning
of ( and ):
\version "2.22.1"
"(" = \melisma
")" = \melismaEnd
\relative {
g'4.( f8 e d c d)
e4 c
}
\addlyrics {
Me -- lis -- ma
}
Lukas
