2012/1/24 Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]>: >> Please consider this example too (see attachment) - it's taken from >> Haendel's "Messiah". I find placing the semicolon before extender >> very awkward here - notice the line break. It seems much more "in >> place" when punctuation is after the extender. > > I disagree. For me, the only right place for punctuation is directly > after the syllable. Remember that if we sing, say, > > a - stray:_________ > > > we actually do > > a - stra_________y: > > so putting just the punctuation after the melisma is illogical.
I could agree if we were talking about a melisma that doesn't cross a line break. When there's a line break involved, having punctuation before it makes the part after the break look totally unconnected to anything. Just some notes and a line, how one is supposed to sing something like that? :) cheers, Janek _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
