Re: slurs and bars in vocal music

[Carl Sorensen]

On 9/25/09 6:31 AM, "fiëé visuëlle" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi again,
> 
> my editor tells me, in vocal music eights (everything smaller than a
> quarter) have to be normally unbarred and I should use barred eights
> instead of slurs.
> 
> Is there a global setting for that?

To change the global settings for a context, you put the setting in a layout
block (see Notation Reference 5.1.5 Changing context default settings)

\layout {
  \context {
      \Staff
      autoBeaming = ##f
   }
}

You can find the property you want to set (autoBeaming) by looking for the
definition of \autoBeamOff.  This is done by going to the git repository

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git

And going to the search box in the upper right, typing autoBeamOff, and
changing the selection box from commit to grep.

Then you'll see a result that says in the file ly/property-init.ly
autoBeamOff = \set autoBeaming = ##f.

> 
> I know \autoBeamOn/Off (works only within a voice) and \override Slur
> #'stencil = ##f

You shouldn't write your music with a slur, you should write it with a
manual beam, shouldn't you?  (That is, replace a8( b c d) with a8[ b c d]).

HTH,

Carl