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Re: Lyric extender
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Trevor Daniels |
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Re: Lyric extender |
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Mon, 16 Dec 2013 18:47:08 -0000 |
Shane Brandes wote Monday, December 16, 2013 5:59 PM
> I am trying to typeset a song and there are two levels of lyrics
> where one runs faster and the other slower such that in a single
> measure you have a word on a whole not in one voice and in an other
> voice you have several words on several notes. The thing i am trying
> to accomplish is to get a lyric hyphen extend for the duration of the
> whole note to emphasize for clarity that the singers are to carry the
> word through the measure. I tried the set melismaBusyproperty and
> that works but then it messes up following instances where there are
> longer tied notes with single words. How does one properly unset the
> melismaBusy property? or is there a simpler method I am over looking?
You don't say what release you are using, but if it's a fairly
recent release 17 this may help you:
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/techniques-specific-to-lyrics#polyphony-with-shared-lyrics
Otherwise. \unset melismaBusyProperties should restore the default
values.
Trevor