Re: music function to be included somewhere in scm/*

[Trevor Daniels]

Knut Petersen wrote Thursday, December 15, 2016 6:08 PM

>> Another common use case occurs when the lyrics in several verses have
>> melismata in different places.  This is usually indicated with dashed slurs,
>> occasionally even with two such slurs starting on the same note.  When
>> there are many of these the easiest way is simply to turn off auto-melismata
>> with   \set melismaBusyProperties = #'() and indicate them with __ and _
>> manually in the lyrics.  Presumably this behaviour will not change with your
>> proposed patch?
> 
> You would leave out the "__" part everywhere.
> 
> Have a look at lyrextest.ly and lyrextest.pdf I sent to the list a few hours 
> ago.
> That should answer most of your questions.
> 
> The "__" is still understood, but it is not needed.

Great!  I'm looking forward to a much easier time setting choral pieces for my 
choir!

Many thanks to you and Alexander for all your work and the prompt replies!

Trevor