Re: beams on melisma

[ludovic sardain]

> From: Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden>
> To: ludovic sardain <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: beams on melisma
> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:04:37 +0100
>
> I'm not sure I understand exactly what you mean.
> The way \lyricsto works in current LilyPond versions is that
> - slurs
> - ties
> - manually inserted beams
> are interpreted as melismas, by default. You can easily change
> this default setting, see for example
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2004-01/msg00553.html
>
>    /Mats

I mean that I want \lyricsto to put itself the beams on the melismas, like 
lilypond did before.


> ludovic sardain wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > In older versions of Lilypond (before 2.0), the lyricsto command was 
> > different: melismas were detected by the slurs or ties, and the other 
> > notes were unbeamed.
> >
> > Now, the function is the same, but all the notes are beamed. I want to 
> > know if there is a command to restore the previous way. I know that I can 
> > remove all beams and add manual beams on the melisma, but it's less 
> > convenient.
> >
> > I like to have both slurs and beams to show the melismas.
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > Ludovic