Re: variant on many syllables to one note

2011-01-19 Thread Graham King
Thanks Ted, that works. The one remaining problem is restoring the default behaviour of melimas afterwards: The \once trick doesn't work. I've also tried saving and restoring the default value of melismaBusyProperties in a temporary variable but, being ignorant of Scheme syntax, I just get

Re: variant on many syllables to one note

2011-01-19 Thread Graham King
Thanks Jan, it works. Much simpler than I expected - I had assumed that melismaBusyProperties had some state that needed to be restored. On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 14:00 +0100, Jan Warchoł wrote: 2011/1/19 Graham King lilyp...@tremagi.org.uk: Thanks Ted, that works. The one remaining problem

Re: variant on many syllables to one note

2011-01-19 Thread Jan Warchoł
2011/1/19 Graham King lilyp...@tremagi.org.uk Thanks Jan, it works.  Much simpler than I expected - I had assumed that melismaBusyProperties had some state that needed to be restored. Yes, it has - and fortunately that's what \unset does for us! :) Also, i've just found something that may be

variant on many syllables to one note

2011-01-18 Thread Graham King
In the early sixteenth century manuscript I'm working on, the scribe has set the first three syllables of angelorum to a single note that I'm transcribing as a1. ~ a1. ~ a1 Is there a way, preferably compatible with \lyricmode, to tell lilypond to align the syllables under the respective

Re: variant on many syllables to one note

2011-01-18 Thread Ted Stanion
I'm pretty sure that adding \set melismaBusyProperties = #'() before your notes will do what you want. On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Graham King lilyp...@tremagi.org.ukwrote: In the early sixteenth century manuscript I'm working on, the scribe has set the first three syllables of angelorum