Re: A "phylosophical" question

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Also if you have \autoBeamOff, I believe that beaming will follow the
> lyrics of lyrics that have the corresponding music as associated
> context, according to baroque conventions.  I don't see anything in the
> manuals at first glance so I might have gotten the details of that one
> wrong.

Ah, it was the other way round.  When autoBeaming is off, then manual
beams are consulted for syllable lengths.  So if you have to beam
manually anyway, switching the autobeamer off completely makes lyrics
entry simpler:

{ \autoBeamOff g'8[ ais'] b'[ cis''] d''2 }
\addlyrics { tro -- ve -- rò. }


-- 
David Kastrup