On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 at 10:14, Kevin Barry <barr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 at 15:06, Peter Crighton <petecrigh...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I want the lyrics to be absolutely free of melismatic hyphens. How can I
> make sure of that? I have ensured that the note heads take as little space
> as they can (to my knowledge), but if it is either a short syllable and/or
> a long melisma, the note heads still take up too much space, so hyphens
> appear. See example below.
>
> You could try using underscores instead of hyphens so that the lyrics
> are always tied to the first note and won't be split up. E.g., in your
> example, use:
> %%
> Lyric = \lyricmode {
> Lorem _ ipsum _ dolor _ sit amet. _
> }
> %%
> instead of using two hyphens (you need to add an underscore for every
> syllable after the first - see the section "Multiple notes to one
> syllable" in the docs for the details).
Unfortunately that’s not an option because I need the same \Lyrics variable
in another, normal score – with hyphens – and cannot change it for this.
It’s not so much a problem of ‘How do I get rid of the hyphens?’ rather
than ‘How do I let the melisma note heads take up less space / the space of
a solitary note head?’
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Peter Crighton | Musician & Music Engraver based in Mainz, Germany
http://www.petercrighton.de
