Thanks, this will help me to get good output from the converted input files (i.e. without shifted lyrics... :-) I have downloaded the input files as well as the original pdf's from http://www.upv.es/coro/victoria/index.html (great site dedicated to the music of T.L. de Victoria) and the pdf files are of poor quality - it seems like there were no type 1 fonts in Lilypond 1.4 ...
Anyway, it would still be nice if this issue with ties could be addressed in future versions of convert-ly. The choir, I sing is, is preparing a performance of Victoria's Officio Defunctorum and I decided to typeset a barless part in alto cleff for myself (I sing alto and as a former pianist I decided I need some training in reading alto cleff :-) instead of singing from the score with all voices in modern clefs. I have the input files for the score and I'm making this part - so I manually replace all tied notes with their real lenght notes, etc. - i.e. the trick you proposed won't work here. Anyway, thanks for quick and (partially) helpfull response. peace jj --- Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The easiest solution for you is probably to tell > your current version of > LilyPond to also ignore ties when assigning lyrics > to notes > (assuming that you use version 2.4.x now, always > tell what version > you use to get a relevant answer): > > \score{ > ... > \layout{ > ... > \context{ > \Score > melismaBusyProperties = #'(melismaBusy > slurMelismaBusy beamMelismaBusy) > } > } > } > > The default definition can be found at > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond-internals/Score.html > and some explanations can be found at > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond-internals/Melisma_005ftranslator.html > > /Mats __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user