Re: Elision slur below entire syllable

2021-08-12 Thread Valentin Petzel
Hi Brent, To achieve such a thing you need to use \concat. This will tell Lilypond to join the single markup objects at the edges into one. Valentin Am Donnerstag, 12. August 2021, 04:49:36 CEST schrieb Brent Annable: > Oh just one more thing: how do I get the "love" and the "liest" to join >

Re: Elision slur below entire syllable

2021-08-11 Thread David Wright
On Thu 12 Aug 2021 at 12:49:36 (+1000), Brent Annable wrote: > Oh just one more thing: how do I get the "love" and the "liest" to join > together as one word, without a space in between? At the moment I have: > > \column { > \line { "See, the love"\undertie"liest""blooming rose," } >

Re: Elision slur below entire syllable

2021-08-11 Thread Brent Annable
Oh just one more thing: how do I get the "love" and the "liest" to join together as one word, without a space in between? At the moment I have: \column { \line { "See, the love"\undertie"liest""blooming rose," } " Alleluia!" "From the branch of Jesse grows,"

Re: Elision slur below entire syllable

2021-08-11 Thread Brent Annable
Valentin, Marvellous, thank you! Brent. On Thu, 12 Aug 2021, 3:16 am , wrote: > Hi Brent, > > This is usually called an undertie. You can do this in markup with the > \undertie command. Note that you can use any markup in lyricsmode, so you > can > do > > \new Staff { c' c'} \addlyrics {lov

Re: Elision slur below entire syllable

2021-08-11 Thread lilypond
Hi Brent, This is usually called an undertie. You can do this in markup with the \undertie command. Note that you can use any markup in lyricsmode, so you can do \new Staff { c' c'} \addlyrics {lov -- \markup\undertie"liest"} to get this even in lyrics. Cheers, Valentin Am Mittwoch, 11.

Elision slur below entire syllable

2021-08-11 Thread Brent Annable
Hi everyone, Is there any way to place an elision slur below an entire syllable (not between syllables), as shown in the example? And does anybody know the proper name for this thing? Since I'm not interlining the lyrics for this hymn, I actually want to do this in a \markup block, not in