Re: Tied notes and lyrics problem

[Mats Bengtsson]

Graham Percival wrote:
> On 16-Jul-05, at 9:30 AM, Borislav Ivanov wrote:
>
> > Hello. I have a problem when lilypond must add lyrics to tied notes. 
> > It thinks that the tied notes are actually one note and add the lyrics 
> > to the next untied note.
>
>
> That's the way it's supposed to be.  If you want the two notes to be 
> treated
> as two separate notes, use slurs instead of ties.

Slurs are normally also treated as melisma, i.e. you only get one
syllable per slur, see "7.3.4 The Lyrics context" in the manual.
You can set the property ignoreMelismata if you don't want this to
happen, see "7.3.5 Flexibility in alignment"

   /Mats