Re: Verses with Different Rhythms

[Erik Sandberg]

On Monday 19 April 2004 21.14, Jean Connelly wrote:
> Regarding:
> > It seems that you use version 2.2, which includes new support
> > for exactly this situation with different number of syllables
> > in different verses, using the ignoreMelismata property.
>
> Unfortunately, as I added verses to the piece, I'd add more ties and then
> I'd have to go back through all of the other verses and add
> ignoreMelimata's in the right places (because there were some places that
> I wanted the melisma behavior, so I kept turning it off and on).  I
> quickly realized that it is easier to just throw in \skip 's into the
> Lyrics and and set ignoreMelismata for the whole piece.

If you want to keep the slurs in the output, it can be a good idea to set 
melismaBusyProperties to ignore slurs, and then to add slurs wherever it 
looks good.

Erik