Lukas,
Perfect, thanks so much again! Gee I'm learning a lot right now.
Brent.
On Sat, 3 Jul 2021 at 17:53, Lukas-Fabian Moser <l...@gmx.de> wrote:
> 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
>
>
