Re: grace notes grumble

[Graham Percival]

On 18-Aug-05, at 3:00 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> Aaron Mehl wrote:
> > > indeed, but it's actually wrong, since grace notes
> > > are too short to sing a syllable on.
> >  I was hoping that was the answer I would get.
> > I am notating folk songs where there is indeed such
> > behaviour, i.e. the singer sings a syllable on a grace
>
> You can switch off the slur melismata. Check the manual for details. 
> OF course, that doesn't help if the rest of the piece does have slurs.

Well, you can just switch it on again, right?  Isn't that what

\set ignoreMelismata = ##t
\unset ignoreMelismata

is for?

Cheers,
- Graham