Re: about lyrics and extenders

[Mats Bengtsson]

Mostly, the music corresponding to the melisma is typeset
with a slur over the notes. LilyPond knows about this practice
and will consider all the slured notes as a single syllable, see
http://lilypond.org/doc/v1.8/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Printing-lyrics.html

If you don't want the slur, but want to exploit this feature of
LilyPond, you may want to play with invisible slurs. An alternative
that always works is to enter the duration of each syllable manually
and remove the \addlyrics.

   Mats


Ricardo Kirkner wrote:
> i just cannot get it straight...
>  
> if i understand correctly when you are writing lyrics, and you want to 
> say that a word should be sung over many notes ( a melisma ), then you 
> write something like
>  
> notes:     n    n    n    n    n    n    n
> words:    w     -     -    -     -     -    -
>  
> this puts the first - close to the word  w, and the rest - left aligned 
> below the respective note.
>  
> when you use -- insted of - then you get the same result, but the -- are 
> centered between notes.
>  
> when you use __ after a note, then you get a line between that note and 
> the next.
>  
> but if you want to extend a word for more than 2 notes, how do you do it?
>  
> the closest i came was to write something like
>  
> notes:    n         n      n     n      n   
> words:    w   __  _ __ _ __ _ __ _
>  
> but this just creates the underlines separated from each other like __ 
> __ __ __
>  
> what i want to achieve is something like ______________
>  
> how dow you do that?
>  
> with regards,
>  
> ricardo
>  
>
>
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