Re: variant on "many syllables to one note"

[Graham King]

Thanks Jan, it works.  Much simpler than I expected - I had assumed that
melismaBusyProperties had some state that needed to be restored.

On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 14:00 +0100, Jan Warchoł wrote:
> 2011/1/19 Graham King <address@hidden>:
> > Thanks Ted, that works.
> >
> > The one remaining problem is restoring the default behaviour of melimas
> > afterwards:
> >
> > The "\once" trick doesn't work.  I've also tried saving and restoring
> > the default value of melismaBusyProperties in a temporary variable but,
> > being ignorant of Scheme syntax, I just get a type error.  Likewise, I'm
> > out of my depth stumbling around with \override and \revert.
> 
> \unset is the correct answer (for all \set commands if i'm not mistaken):
> 
> \version "2.13.45"
> <<
>   \relative a' {
>     \set melismaBusyProperties = #'()
>     a1 ~ a1 ~ a1 ~ a1
>     \unset melismaBusyProperties
>     b1 ~ b1 ~ b1 ~ b1
>     c1
>   }
>   \addlyrics {
>     An -- ge -- lor -- um
>     Bla -- lah!
>   }
> >>
> 
> cheers,
> Janek
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Graham King <address@hidden>