On Sun, 2017-02-19 at 14:49 +0000, David Sumbler wrote: > In 2 of the set of 6 songs I have (rather slowly) been setting, I > want > 2 sets of words: the original, and an English version. In each of > the > other 4 songs there is just one set of words. > > After much experimentation and a lot of failures, I found a way of > doing what I wanted, which is to use manual durations. This may very > well not be the best nor the simplest way of doing it, but it is the > only way I found that works. > > The only trouble is, I cannot work out how to produce a melisma mark > when using manual durations. The following snippet illustrates the > problem: > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > \version "2.19.48" > > \paper { ragged-right = ##f } > > voice = { \time 3/4 \partial 8 > e'8 | e' d' d'4( ~ d'16 c') b8 | c'4 c'4. r8 \bar "|." > } > > words = \lyricmode { Ac er -- aill yn __ ei fe -- di. } > > trans = \lyricmode { An8 -- oth -- er reaps4. __ the8 har4 -- vest.4. > } > > << > \new Staff { \voice } > \addlyrics { \words } > \new Lyrics { \override LyricText.font-shape = #'italic > \trans } > > > > > > > > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > > The melisma appears as required in the upper set of words, but not in > the lower. I have tried various ways to get what I want, but so far > without any success. > > Can it be done?
Thank you for the responses to my question. Unfortunately, I now realise that the question was not clearly expressed. It was not intended to be "is there a way to get melisma in upper and lower voices", but "is there a way to get melisma marks when using manual syllable durations?" As I said in my original post, I had tried various other ways of setting the second set of words, including the obvious one of creating a \new Voice at the relevant point of the vocal staff and using \lyricsto. Unfortunately there was a problem with this, which was that the words were set one note late, try as I might to get around the problem. So instead of spending possibly hours trying to get to the root of this, I decided to try manual durations, which appeared to work perfectly - until I ran into this melisma problem in the second of the relevant songs. (There is no melisma in the first of the 2 songs.) In view of the fact that manual durations are the first to be shown in the Notation Reference, it seems surprising if such a standard part of musical notation is not supported. So - can anyone tell me if melisma markings be produced when using manual durations with lyrics? And if so, how? David _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user