Hi mancunius,
On 20/07/2022 12:34, mancunius wrote:
Hello. In the following example I want the undertie to be placed
between the 2 “O sacrum convivium” lines of lyrics, to indicate that
no breath should be taken by the singers - as per the normal choral
convention. (cf. the commented-out \breathe command in the music
itself.) As it currently compiles, the undertie is placed beneath the
word “O” of the second phrase.
This is because the markup command \undertie requires an argument and so
it is applied to the following syllable.
What I would suggest is a dotted or dashed slur between the notes like this:
{ \once\dashedSlur cs( d) }
Unfortunately there is no mechanism for creating a tie between different
lyric syllables _yet_. However, LilyPond is very open to customisation
and maybe some of the wizards on this list could help. This is the
method I hoped might work:
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\version "2.20.0"
\layout {
\context {
\Lyrics
\consists "Slur_engraver"
}
}
startLyricSlur = (
stopLyricSlur = )
\score {
<<
{ 2 4( 4) }
\addlyrics {
um, \startLyricSlur
O __ \stopLyricSlur
}
>>
}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
and I don’t know whether it’s a short or a long way from working…
Best, Simon
