David Sumbler <da...@aeolia.co.uk> writes: > On Sun, 2017-02-19 at 14:49 +0000, David Sumbler wrote: > > 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?
Again: set associatedVoice accordingly. Why ask for advice if you are going to ignore it?
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \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 = "up" { \voice } \addlyrics { \words } \new Lyrics \with { associatedVoice = "up" \override LyricText.font-shape = #'italic } { \trans } >> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-- David Kastrup
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