Re: Strange behavior of extenders

[Mats Bengtsson]

Could you please try to update to the latest stable version and see
if things have changed there. I know that there have been some
related bug fixes recently.

  /Mats

Catalin Francu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Appended is an excerpt from my current work where I'm seeing some
> strange behavior of extenders. All three voices use \melisma and
> \melismaEnd, so together with the __ extenders I expected the
> underlines in the lyrics to span measures 2-4 and 6-8 entirely in all
> three voices. However, what I'm seeing is:
>
> - Voice 2 looks right, the underlines span measures 2-4 and 6-8 as 
> expected
> - Voice 1 has shorter underlines stopping somewhere in measures 3 and
> 7 respectively
> - Voice 3 has very short underlines, ending immediately after the "M" 
> syllables.
>
> There were some phrasing slurs there and other things, but I stripped
> them down since they didn't seem to be relevant to the problem.
>
> Any thoughts? Thanks in advance,
> Catalin
>
> \version "2.10.8"
>
> global = {
>  \key g \major
>  \time 3/4
> }
>
> womenWords = \lyricmode {
>  M, m, M __
>  M, m, M __
> }
>
> tenorWords = \lyricmode {
>  M, m, M __
>  M, m, M __
> }
>
> bassWords = \lyricmode {
>  M __
>  M __
> }
>
> womenMusic = \relative {
>  r4 b'4 b4
>  b8( \melisma c8) b8( c8) d4~
>  d2.~
>  d2. \melismaEnd
>  \break
>
>  r4 b4 b4
>  b8( \melisma c8) b8( c8) d4~
>  d2.~
>  d4 e2 \melismaEnd
>  \break
> }
>
> tenorMusic = \relative {
>  r4 g4 g4
>  g8( \melisma a8) g8( a8) b4
>  a8( b8) c4 b4
>  a8 g8 fis8 g8 e8 fis8 \melismaEnd
>
>  r4 g4 g4
>  g8( \melisma a8) g8( a8) b4
>  a8( b8) c4 b4~
>  b4 e,2 \melismaEnd
> }
>
> bassMusic = \relative {
>  R2.
>  d,2. \melisma
>  c8 b8 a4 g4
>  d'2. \melismaEnd
>
>  R2.
>  d2. \melisma
>  c8 b8 a4 g4
>  b4 e2 \melismaEnd
> }
>
> myScore = \new Score <<
>  \new ChoirStaff <<
>    \new Staff \new Voice { \global \womenMusic }
>    \addlyrics { \womenWords }
>
>    \new Staff <<
>      \clef "G_8"
>      \new Voice { \global \tenorMusic }
>      \addlyrics { \tenorWords }
>    >>
>
>    \new Staff <<
>      \clef "G_8"
>      \new Voice { \global \bassMusic }
>      \addlyrics { \bassWords }
>    >>
>  >>
> > >
>
> \score {
>  \myScore
>  \layout { }
>  \midi { }
> }
>
>
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