Re: Elision in lyrics

[Mats Bengtsson]

This request keeps poping up about once a year or so. If I recall
correctly, the earlier requests were for a curved symbol, something
like a tie pointing downwards, whereas your example shows a straight
line. I think you can find some workarounds in the mailing list archives
using inline LaTeX code. For an ordinary underscore as in the example
you show, you could simply use "tre\\_es".
If there happens to be any symbol in the LilyPond Feta font that could
be useful (see
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/The-Feta-font.html#The-Feta-font) 
then it's easy to access in the lyrics by just inserting a \markup{...}
command.

   /Mats

Laura Conrad wrote:
> There's a typesetting convention for lyrics that when there are what
> look like two syllables on a note but it's really only one because one
> is elided, you join the syllables with a sort of a tie underneath
> them.  You can see how Encore does this on the bottom score of the
> first page of this file.
>
> <http://www.cpdl.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=getit&lid=2595> 
>
> Is there a way to make Lilypond do this?  
>
> If so, can it be documented and indexed under "elision", or "Lyrics, elision"?
>
> One of my group members believes strongly that this is the *right
> thing to do*, so I might do it if it were easy, but they never did
> stuff like that in the 16th century, so I might just not bother
> anyway.
>        

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